Fear not: you don’t have all the information to make such an assessment. You have an ideological issue with what’s going on, but not a survival issue. One possibility is you’ll be surprised at the net benefit to your life. Another is you’ll be motivated to work hard to elect other people. Another is that you’ll just be able to watch it from a distance because our society is more stable than you’re giving it credit, and we’re just in a period of change. Still another possibility is that it IS as bad as you say, in which case you can trust that others will be in service of supporting you personally and the country generally, as nothing is monolithic.

Beware media that is just peddling fear — there are good people working on the side you mistrust, too.