Can the Democrats make a significant difference...

...with their new majority in the US political scene?

A butterfly flapping its wings in Cancun could trigger a tectonic plate shift in the Yukon, thus rendering much of the Earth's surface to constant metamorphosis... wiping out a billion people and countless other beings due to earthquakes, tsunamis, and other naturally-caused disasters. (I am referring to the theory of chaos and the Butterfly Effect, not the movie by the way.) But that does not mean it will happen in the next two years, or ever. Same with the Dems.

Have you seen how small their majority is in the Senate (one seat)? Even in the House there are too many conservative Republicans and Democrats to make too much of a difference. Plus, there is a little thing called a veto, a president called Bush, and a need for a two-thirds majority in agreement to override that president.

I guess my point is, any real change that is brought about by the Democrats' revival will be inadvertently caused and unintended, will happen as a result of something indirect or minuscule, or will be likened to the so-called Butterfly Effect. Chaos theory applies to politics as much as anything else, you know.

This, the future of US politics and the Democratic Party's congressional majority, is one of the topics I will be elaborating on, as mentioned in this post.

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