The thing that helped me get out of my last depressive episode was the realisation that being a doomer is unmaterialist. For a lot of us, Sanders and Corbyn represented the first time that we felt hopeful about the future. That they both lost was a pretty big blow and a lot of people are still coming to terms with it. We've all been grieving for a lost future. However, it's important to recognise that Sanders and Corbyn didn't create the movements that brought them close to power and no one predicted their emergence beforehand. They were just avatars of the frustrations of normal people, and particularly of young people. None of the conditions that created the movements around them have gone away and, in fact, coronavirus has just made them worse. That should give us hope, because the left are the only ones who have any solutions to them. The right are actively making them worse and are incredibly unpopular with anyone who isn't a boomer and liberals' solution is to pretend that it's 1997 and hope that no one notices that it isn't.

There are multi-billion dollar industries whose main purpose is to convince people that things can never change, so it's inevitable that we're all going to feel like doomers from time to time. Yet, over the last 10 years everyone I know has become radicalised and the socialist promising 'revolution' won like 90% of the youth vote in the US, while Corbyn won every demographic of working age. The future will no doubt be hard in many ways and things are getting worse, but that doesn't mean that they won't ever be better. Capitalists will always present crises of capitalism as the literal end of the world, because for them it will be. But we shouldn't fall for it. A communist world will always have to deal with the crises that capitalism leaves behind.