While it is true there is no political appetite to eliminate it, that has little to do with whether you'll get a reasonable amount of benefit from it.

Currently, mandatory spending which includes Medicare and Social Security go over a cliff where the interest exceeds projected GDP ~2032 (before factoring in inflation; it gets worse with inflation).

There was a congressman trying to bring attention to the issue for newly elected politicians who did a C-SPAN presentation on it.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ut1yQg2qA4&ab_channel=Forbe...