No need to panic, I have been around long enough to be confident we will get through it.
The long parabola of history favors liberalism, humanism, and enlightenment. Conservatism, dogma, and theology are, in the grand scheme of things, permanently on the decline.
At present, the only way reactionaries, Republicans, and teabaggers are able to maintain an iron grip on power is through constructing cynical and undemocratic schemes to ensure their power. The GOP gerrymandering in 2010 along with voter suppression literally bought Republicans a full decade of unrelenting power. Certainly, the constitution affords disproportionate power to red states, to conservative states through the Senate and the Electoral College. And when you think about it, the architecture of EC and the Senate were put in place specifically to give Slave states disproportionate power. To give a greater voice to the Slave Economy..... I mean, is this the 21st century, or not??!