Ft. Worth Frog
Acrobat
Soon I think this will all die down because it is inevitable. For example, you had the federalists and anti-federalists at each others throats around 1800. This fervor died down once the War of 1812 ended. There was no real partisanship until the age of Jackson (the birth of the whig party). Slavery of course exacerbated problems in the 1840s and 50s. However, even in this century, the success of the Roosevelt coalition (labor, farmers, urban dwellers, etc.) held together for quite awhile. I think that sometime in the future we will look back on this time period as maybe full of too much partisan spirit on both sides. At least I hope that is the case.