I've listened to pundits on both sides and both lie an awful lot. I won't deal with either the red or blue teams. It's all about greed, power and micromanaging people's lives for their own greed, exploitation, prohibitions, and spreading their own brand or morality which I don't agree with. I've spent most of my life feeling like an alien fighting to own my own life and not be used by these arrogant control freaks. My lifestyle is very much a community minded DIY Bohemian who abhors the use of fear and violence to control people like they do. As for who screwed the economy? The government did. There's no reason that everything should spiral down like this in a free society like it has if markets could operate in independent ways, but with government tightly and coercively controlling everything markets can't really operate independently and are lead like lemmings right over the cliff and some with guns at the backs of their heads. The government is at the helm and steers everyone in one direction where they want and they've brought us to this, just like they did back in 1929. Personally I doubt anything will get better; maybe if we have a 3rd or 4th party gain equal power with the 2 dominant corrupt ones.