So, maybe a good question so answers can be in context is, where are you from?
I'm from India. The shittiest of the shittiest third world country to exist in my humble opinion.
Here politicians do all sorts of shady illegal stuff starting right from natural resources smuggling (like sand, gravel etc.,) to human and organ trafficking.
The elites over here are literal pedophiles and rape and torture children and women for their own crooked pleasure (Here's are some news article regarding Nithari serial murder case from top of my bookmarks for your reference. This case revolves around pedophilia, necrophilia, cannibalism and sexual trafficking. The businessman Moninder Singh Pandher involved in this case was regarded as "India's Epstein". He said in an interrogation that he knows powerful ministers and actually named a few. It is regarded he "supplied" children to powerful politicians. Links: wiki: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Noida_serial_murders BBC news article: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-67119737).
And don't even get me started on the Indian police! They are the most powermonger police force you'll ever meet in your life! Those mofos will try to do any vile thing which is in reach within their powers!
You could say that I live in an overtly totalitarian country. I live in India and with the path we are going, we'll mostly be a dictatorship within 2027 with the new "one nation one election" bullshit.
I actually don't consume news. I don't watch news on the TV or YouTube. I don't read newspapers either. Some rare "once under a blue moon browsing local news subreddits thing" that's it. But even that rare news consumption makes me feel nervous with all the crazy and vile shit going on in my country.