Joel, your post-New Deal paradise would be littered with "rust-belt-boys" like you with little education, no health care, working long hours for low pay and no overtime, at the whim of your master, with no power even to organize a strike, which would be met by police batons at any rate. Those of you who don't toe the line will be out on the street begging for bread, living in Hoovervilles that are raided by armed bullies at night.

Progressives brought your grandparents into the middle class. Socialism brought you electricity, running water and sanitary sewers, along with schools for your children, roads and bridges and harbors. and police and armed forces to defend you. Your willingness to throw that all away, not just for yourself but for children and those children's children, makes you a "no-it-all", but it proves you are not a "know-it-all".