Their alternate universe is so bizarre.
It's as if they think there's some magic in their "formulas" that will do an end run around economic reality.
The rats may be spending like sailors, buying every vote they can knowing the adults are coming into power and then they can blame us for cutting every program that has to be cut to save the fiscal sanity/being of the country.
Or at least try.
Politically it plays into their sides paradigm very well.
Love your cartoon. Progs definitely believe in Magical Thinking.
I am not going to call them ‘dems’ any longer, because the Democrat(ic) Party is dead as the Whig party. They are all socialists now.