Talk to and trust your neighbours and friends.  Ignore advice from rich people and their companies, their lobbyists, their news outlets, and their professional associations (like The Chamber of Commerce),   Ignore polls that are paid for by rich people, thieir lobbyists, their news outlets and the professional associations.  It's important to understand who are the colonists and who are the colonizers.  Hint - the colonizers take the resources that most of us work for ;)