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Oh, and one other thing, Praetorian.

Some of those older folks are old enough to remember the truth about the Depression and what it took to get us out of it (hint: it wasn’t nanny-state socialism).

Virtually all of them, though, are old enough to remember the social-engineering and command-economy follies of the 1970′s, and how these follies worked against preserving our prosperity.

To such as these, the new Messiah looks a lot like the Second Coming of Jimmy Carter … and they have been there, endured that, and don’t want to go back.

I’m one of them. We know a few things you young’uns don’t know yet … and our opposition is in part an effort to keep y’all from having to learn the hard way, like we did.