The intergenerational crisis that dare not speak its name

Liberal democracy in crisis. The older generations in denial.

[Retired citizens. Big house. No surprise.]

If we are to arrest the decline of liberal democracy, we must address the cause that dare not speak its name. For although racial, sexual and other inequalities are very real, they fall into insignificance next to the granddaddy of them all. Intergenerational inequality. Until his recent death, my grandfather (…