In a world where most people fear the road, the body, or the stranger, Americans have arrived at something rarer: a fear of their own political order. A sweeping 140-country survey finds one in ten U.S. adults now name politics itself as their greatest personal safety threat — ten times the global norm and a figure unmatched anywhere on Earth. This is not merely a polling curiosity; it marks a moment when the machinery of self-governance has ceased to feel protective and begun, for many, to feel menacing.