Comment by relaxing
2 hours ago
You’re right to be thinking of second- and third-order solutions to these problems, which unfortunately the commenters in these threads aren’t prepared to engage with.
But the “economic anxiety” angle is well debunked at this point. Grievance, stoked by the right wing takeover of the media, is the answer. And we’ll need to go a lot further along the vector of solutions you’ve started down to fix that.
Any sources on that debunking? I can't say I've seen anything, but I'm open to read about it. Intuitively any societal problems like cost of living will feed into the far-right narrative that the elites are incompetent. All kinds of incumbents lost ground worldwide after Covid. And last I read the consensus is housing is a big contributor to the far-right issues in Denmark and the Netherlands.
But sure, if you want to add "break up big tech" and "regulate social media" to the shopping cart I'm absolutely up for it.