As a financial advisor, I've been having this conversation for over a decade. Here's the version in my head before I put it in client-friendly language:
Jesus Christ, SS is not going away. All this "OMG SS is running out of money!" stuff is fear-mongering political bullshit. The surplus is running out. The surplus only pays about 20% of the payout. That will have to be made up in other ways, obviously, and it will be.
They will push FRA back for younger generations (which should have been happening in much bigger ways for decades), recalibrate the calculation (lower the payouts), and probably eventually raise taxes, and/or move money from programs that liberals like to SS. But they will never, ever kill Social Secuity. That is nothing more than red meat political stumping for the right wingers. They know damned well that they can't actually do it, and they don't care, because it riles people up and gets them votes, and no one holds anyone in office accountable to what s/he said while campaigning.
Also, calling Social Security an entitlement program in the first place is part of the problem. They know that, too. And they don't care. Because every Republican since John McCain died has been completely full of shit, all the time.
Every single person reading this will get their Social Security checks. If you're younger than 40, they might be 85-90% of what you thought, and they might start a year later, but you will get them.