Serious question: do you *need* to follow the elections in the US?

Don't get me wrong, you should do your part and do what you can to prevent a disastrous outcome. But you also need to recognize where "what you can do" ends, and where the doomscrolling loop begins.

We all know how bad things could end up being after this election, we're all aware. Reading up more on analyses and predictions is unlikely to improve our understanding, and even less likely to result in a concrete action that we can take against it - at least, one we didn't already think of.

Maybe it's better to just... detach from it, if you are not actively working on it already, let the chips fall where they may, and instead put your energy into building a sustainable society going forward, with or without the systems currently in place.

There are a lot more productive things you can do with your time and energy, than worrying more about something you already know is bad. And for a lot of those possibilities, it just doesn't really matter what the outcome of this election is.