as with sausages and law, so with politics in general: those with weak stomachs ought not watch them being made
Having lived through the Vietnam era as a young draft eligible guy, the Nixon impeachment, the Carter years, post 9-11, now Obama and the current distress over the GOPe as it is commonly called by the right, I expect the Republic will actually survive.
My ancestors all had the grit to cross the Atlantic in wooden vessels, sails for power, then cross the continent, often in wagons or ships around the horn, I am amused by what constitutes "hardship" in some eyes.
With ancestor that fought in the Revolution, the Civil War, WWI and WWII, I am not alarmed so much as the perpetually worried screechers, on the interwebs.
If not dreadfully afraid and panicked, what would there to talk about?
What is there to justifiably worry about? A friend and former boss died at only age 70, of some rare blood cancer. He had expected to live for many more years. He had money, a bayfront 4,000 sq. ft. 3 story house, a 40 ft. sail boat, a beautiful and brilliant wife, etc.
Your life, quality of life, lives of family and friends, are what counts. This worry over the political news is largely manufactured by the news industry, to keep you agitated, scrambling back to the boob tube, now the interwebs, to hear entertainers that wind you up.
Chill, smell the flowers, this too shall pass.