So you are presuming we can make it through under Dem rule. Post 9/11, I'm not very confident of that.
Democrat rule? Republican rule? I'm not confident that we can survive either one.
Yes. I don't believe the democrats can destroy the country in that period of time. Frankly, nobody can do much with that power, because first it won't be a large majority, and second the real power's in the civil service ranks, and they pretty much run stuff.
Plus, whatever the dem's do will make things worse, so the ignorant masses who don't care about party will vote republicans back when they don't get results.
And if we had a republican president who knew how to use a pen, we might be able to veto stuff that was really bad.