If Republicans take power and actually start cutting spending .... the people that lose their government handout will vote against them in the next election... then Democrats will take over and spend the economy into the ground again and the cycle will repeat itself.
Nothing but a sustained recovery can get us out of this cycle, but I can't see anyway possible for that to happen with this level of debt and our current system of government where everyone is allowed to vote. No one who is taking government welfare should be allowed to vote.
That's a good law that'll never happen.
And you're probably right about the see-saw. The marxists will NOT give up. Guaranteed.