You can't run an automobile on thin air forever, and a steady drip of wrong information and its refutation has eroded the wingies' credibility pretty badly. If you can catch people out when they lie to the public, it takes them a lot of time to recover credibility. Perhaps I'll devote my summer project to that goal. However, given the wealth of talent on the opposite side, and the fact that the Left doesn't need to waste three-quarters of its money, I say it's still possible to stop him. Sorry, Mill, but in the US there's a sucker born every minute.
Generations grow up having heard it from the cradle onwards.
There's no feedback loop to turn off the propaganda. The Social Security issue is rather pathetic. Society is going to produce a certain amount of goods, which must be divided between retirees and those working. Almost the entire Social Security debate is focusing on the second issue. The privatizers essentially want to make social security a game of musical chairs with the music really fast and lots of losers, because they will be the ones taking the chairs out of the game in commissions and corporate ownership by the very rich.