The only rational explanation I've found for their behaviour is that they hope I'm right.
Of course, trying to apply rational analysis to the Left is a fools errand.
It would fit the LibDemCom’s overall agenda of divide and conquer and socialize. A tasty deep depression would vastly advance Socialism in the USA. We are so soft now, most people would wake up to a depression begging the government to take away all their freedom if only they will provide all their basic needs. Back in the USSA.