> As a member of a generation that has grown up tacitly understanding that social security will very likely be insolvent/cancelled by the time that we're old enough to qualify for it

Is it “tacitly understanding” when you've been bathed your whole life in active propaganda promoting an idea? Because, on this, if you are in any cohort from Gen X, or maybe the trailing edge of thr Boomers, on, you have been.