Don't panic
Excellent, excellent article over at The Chronicle Of Higher Education pointing out how the pundits and media tend to blow things out of proportion (and all under the rubric of refuting the claim that the Republicans are now America's "permanent majority"). The fact is, the American people are less radical and ideologically extreme/split than certain people would have you believe, and although the massive instutional inertia of a government like America's (or Canada's) can be frustrating, it also tends to keep things from getting too out of hand. Worth it just for the brief mention in the middle of why one party controlling all branches of the American government isn't actually that effective or fearsome.
