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'Cakeism, impatience and low quality public discourse' - captures the problematic side of the U.S.'s electorate as well. Let's hope better instincts are being called forth.

Good article. It's the generational unfairness that concerns me most. There will be no state pension at all for our children if older people don't take on more of the burden, never mind the triple lock.

One point I wanted to raise is that you discuss needing to raise media and financial literacy. You didn't provide any thoughts on how to do that. Do you have any ideas on what government could do to improve that area? It definitely needs doing!

Interesting piece. Not sure I agree on the "we need more business people in politics" thing though. The Coalition govt made a big deal of its business experience and they implemented a hugely damaging programme of austerity which caused basically all of the problems you've identified here.