That is a point that even a Tea Bagger could understand. The financial elite want our retirement money to pay off their gambling debts. Were the average Texas libertarian to grasp that they would likely respond with something like:

"Impale the bastards on sharpened poles around the White House! And put their banks out of business. We are better off without them."

"It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."

The intellectual and political architecture of this kind of attack has already been laid, and is well advanced, here in California. Hardly a day goes by without a newspaper article, op-ed, or letter to the editor in a local paper complaining about "unfair" public pensions that bleed everyone else dry.

And of course, the federal "cat food commission" that is determined to destroy Social Security and Medicare is due to deliver its recommendations in December.

And the world will live as one