I was watching "Doomsday Preppers" and it seems that more and more of the people they feature (who they always portray as kooks) are preparing for economic collapse rather than the more bizarre (and unlikely) phenomenons such as comets and super volcanos.
At the end of each segment they pronounce their judgement on "The Odds" of whatever catastrophe mentioned would have coming to pass. It's funny because they never actually provide "odds" which would be a mathematical ratio. Instead, they always say that there is a next to nothing chance of whatever it is occurring. (This is irritating for me, as a poker player, because chances and odds are subtly different.)
When the scenario discussed by the prepper is economic collapse the narrator always says that "leading economists" believe that despite our recent economic trouble and the problems in Europe, there is very little chance of it happening. And, of course, anyone who has been paying attention knows that the "leading economists" never saw the current situation coming, either...hence the extremely overused word, "unexpected" in the economic news stories of the last four years. That makes their confident arrogant dismissal of "economic collapse" as a very real possibility (we would say "eventuality") either stupid or ignorant.
As for any notion regarding the forgiveness of Democrats...I don't think that you will have much opportunity one way or the other. As evidenced by the voting stats, most Democrats are concentrated in the dense urban areas, the places least likely to do very well at all in a collapse. They will quite literally kill each other off in a panic/riot situation and therefore be completely beyond any opportunity for you or I to forgive or not forgive.
As an aside, you should probably have some kind of an escape plan in place to get out of your area and into a safer one.