You're too young to remember the 1970's, when decades of Democratic congresses layered on regulations and swelled the welfare rolls piling on debt. As a result, inflation was rampant, unemployment was high, businesses can't operate, refineries close, gas prices skyrocket, it was misery. Eventually the electorate wakes up and kicks them all out, free markets get let loose, the economy zooms, smart people get rich, the crooks take hold, rig the markets, rob everyone blind, everything crashes, the Democrats take over and the cycle starts all over again.