Conservative commentator and bestselling author Ben Shapiro drew the ire of both sides of the political aisle last week when he correctly pointed out that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme that is careening toward insolvency.

Pundits both on the Left and the Right who have made the decision to avoid the ultimate third rail of America’s politics at all costs chose to focus on Shapiro’s assertion that retirement itself is a bad idea for most workers. They did nothing to combat his objectively correct point that Social Security will be insolvent within a decade without radical and far-reaching reforms.