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Hard for some to believe, but the "Greatest Generation" of Americans currently living off Social"ist" Security can still remember a time when we all rolled up our sleeves and toiled round the clock to produce tanks, guns, ammunition and planes to come to the urgent aid of a diehard unrepentant socialist we nicknamed "Uncle Joe" Stalin - the task of ridding the world of National Socialists made for unlikely allies at the time, but the greater need was crystal clear. Perhaps you had to be there to understand. And if you were, you'd also understand why America overwhelmingly supported a severely handicapped leader in the White House for an unprecedented FOUR terms as President.