Re:'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle
by gadders on Monday July 20, 2020 @06:06AM
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The OP said "cultural and ideological", not political.
Re:'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle
by maeln on Monday July 20, 2020 @07:50AM
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Culture and ideologies are very much political.
Re:'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle
by yungmodulus on Monday July 20, 2020 @08:00AM
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I think OP is going to meet resistance against the claim if people assume (maybe incorrectly) that they’re talking about the United States. I can’t speak to other places
In a lot of western country, the "hard-right" has won: Trump in the US, Johnson in the UK, Orban in Hungary, Bolsonaro in Brazil, ... And in some other country they are maybe the strongest they ever been in recent memory (France, Belgium, arguably even Germany). I cannot think of any "hard-left" president/prime-minister that has won in any country recently. Moderate left maybe, but no hard-left. So if anything, the institutions in power are dragging us to the "hard-right", not really the opposite. Sure, some institutions have always been a left stronghold, but until now, it doesn't seem that they had really any impact in shifting the power balance ...