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Because it's evolutionarily ingrained across life that individuals with a higher quality and quantity of offspring eventually dominate populations. And people who think more of others and less of themselves are usually not very good at that.

It's not. We're just more aware of it.

Don't give in to despair!

Because sensationalism creates ad revenue. So the news you receive from any side of any story is going to try and make you as angry/scared as possible so you’re more apt to share it and spread the word- they then use the page bits and time spent on their sites to generate more ad revenue.

Stay away from tankie, far-left, liberal, democratic, conservative, republican, and MAGA-affiliated sites. They’re guaranteed to not be honest with you. Instead, stick with independent and unbiased sources like Reuters and Associated Press.

Because of doom scrolling and 24/7 negative news coverage.

Fact of the matter is it is easier to destroy than create, so if evil was as rampant as people think, we wouldn't have a society. We'd be living in Mad Max. The vast majority of people want stability.

Because that's what the news and social media is talking about right now. The zeigeist is currently cynical

Because you're reading too much news and the intention of majority of them is not to make you informed but scared and angry. The vast majority of thing you're scared about never end up happening.

Because you listen to news that makes money by sensationalizing everything for profit, and happy stories don't sell papers. There's plenty of uplifting stuff happening in the world every day that flies under the radar.

To be effective is to not get held up on having good means to get stuff done.

It feels that way because your social media feed is programmed to reinforce what you're already thinking and keep your emotions engaged, regardless of whether you're correct or not.

Because it has become fashionable not to hide it.
Evil has always been winning. The early homo sapiens attacked the Neanderthals. They kept them as slaves and raped the women. (At least that is the current theories, no one "really" knows the specifics other than they "won"). It is in the nature of homo sapiens to get ahead by exploiting others. It's why they win, and why we have the technology and such we have today. A person with less morals to constrain them will win out over a moral person. I think our only realistic way out is to let AI take over. But I don’t see any reason why it won't come to the same conclusion, and then exploit us even more. But one can hope.

Because younger people of late feel that being good is annoying but being evil is funny, and they are beginning to vote accordingly.

Because older people are scared about things they don't understand and are becoming increasingly selfish, convinced by people who claim simple solutions for complex issues.

I'm going to take a different tack on this than other responses: evil is winning because good is dumb.

A lot of progressive groups within the past few decades, whether it be Occupy, Black Lives Matter, or others, can't seem to actually get their policies enacted on a mass scale. In cases where politicians actually go through with their policies, those progressive groups won't support those politicians from getting voted out and having the reforms reversed.

Trump got elected, in part, because progressives didn't want to vote for Genocide Joe and Copmala. Yet, you don't see progressives building the kinds of political groups needed to wil elections like the right has.

Because u only use news to inform yourself .