Perhaps opposition to Social Security has become a runaway train, a rhetorical and intellectual commitment too strong to give up even after it has lost its connection to an actual policy programme. But the effect of continued inaccurate attacks on the foundations of Social Security is to deepen most people’s confusion about the actual soundness of the concept, and to reinforce young people’s scepticism that they will ever benefit from it. I’ve been hearing such scepticism from my own cohort for almost 20 years now. It doesn’t make any sense. If my generation does in fact fail to receive our Social Security checks, it will only be because we inexplicably decided to vote ourselves out of them.
— Social Security: A monstrous truth | The Economist
