The indisputable fact of modern politics is that the left wing thrives on crisis. Democrats can't get elected unless Americans are unhappy about something. If things are going fine the left will manufacture a crisis. Flu vaccine, SARS, Bird flu, Swine flu, global cooling, global warming, hetrosexual AIDS epidemic, overpopulation, infrastructure deterioration, gun crime, carbon pollution and a hundred other threats to human existence are all left wing liberal manufactured well timed crisis issues tailored to specific economic or political campaigns.