United States Politics: ∆τ_i*ε*φ*m_i<0 where ε=4 and φ=0.25

[DavidCroquet]

In a way, people should find this all very reassuring.

Naturally, they will somehow distort it in their mind palace into a reason to be even more alarmed, but a cordial political handoff is exactly what you want from a functioning democracy. 

assuming, of course, that you actually want a democracy...