I’m coping fine. Trump will be dead or gone in 3 1/2 years. Or sooner. It will take time to recover from the damage he’s done.
However, it goes beyond Trump. He’s created a brainless cult following and we all know how difficult it is for people to break out of cults. That division - reasonable people vs cultists - will be a long term problem not so easily fixed.
More like the media indoctrinated vs. those who are not.
Uhm, with that stuff, tbh, from what I've seen education level is irrelevant. They can still fall sway to the media siren song.
Ofc education quality has gone down steadily since 1976.
I'd pretty much put even money on my grandma, with her 9th grade education, would be on par with at least a bachelor degree today, seriously.

There used to be serious American education standards, and they changed right while I was in school, so I saw what was going on.
I felt it, even. I got the last of the good stuff, and it was all accelerating downhill from there.
When I started school, it was the old style, then after 2 1/2 years, everything changed.
Non-college material students flooded the campus, requirement tests were gone, everybody was accepted and got loans.
Campus population grew 200% from one year to the next. I ended up making money and getting credits for tutoring some of the non-college ready students in a lab. They got taken advantage of, IMO.
I bet 80% washed out and had to pay loans back and ruined their credit.