Or is it the mental ability of those mormons who BELIEVE a convicted con-man 'translated' an ancient book by stuffing his face into a hat and looking at a smooth pebble?
That too.
“Probably the best-known case of massive affinity fraud is that committed by Bernie Madoff, who is alleged to have defrauded investors of up to $50 billion....”
Neither Madoff, nor, for that matter, Smith and his followers ever saw, much less took the amount of money taken by a certain scam called Social Security. It was asocial (if not downright anti-social) and there was no security in it.
Mere chump change pikers compared to the Social Security scam.