"This Country would be doing better if they shut down" - Grizz
Hoo-rah!!!!
Of course, we all KNOW that in a "shut-down" of former times, "government workers" get treated to a wee sabbatical with full back pay. It's wired into the loop whenever the Deep State tries to scare the beejeebers out of us ignorant plebes.
Transfers payment "might be held up" if the wheels of government are stopped by "Deplorable, Domestic Terrorist"
Scare the old people, then herd them.
Can we talk about an animal of a different color?
SS recipients aren't generally going to be the trigger pullers that will be needed to "thin the herd" of grifting, totally corrupt Administrative State functionaries who are actually in charge of screwing or placating 'the masses".
But they can, numerically, statistically, form a body for supporting younger people who would answer current outrages with a kinetic response. (Note: Genghis Khan's methods, highly effective and efficient as the were, did NOT depend on agreements of pronoun usage)
We should all (sanely) wish no need for "Molon Labe".
But existential enemies seldom offer your proffered list of "druthers".