A Little Perspective:

Did you know that 182 years passed from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the drafting of the US Constitution in 1789? 182 years from 1789 is --- 1971!

Shakespere was still writing and producing plays when Englishmen sailed up the James River. The colonists couldn't bring the King James Bible with them because it was still in development. And so on.

All of which is to say we've been here for quite a bit longer than most of us realize, and that we've survived worse than arrogant community organizers playing at socialism.