I am not entirely sure myself. But really it's where I am actually at. Exhausted of being critical of things we can't change.

It seems that a lot of people feel this way. Maybe the answer is getting involved in local politics, as quaint as that sounds?

I sort-of feel this way. Not enough to give up my voice (vote), but to a degree I think it doesn't matter if I'm worried about politics/news/Tomahawk missiles, or who I vote for, or whatever.

I "fixed" it by moving to a remote location where, at least, things affect me less. Our county is poor, not much money to mishandle. Our road isn't paved, no potholes to fix and no expectation to have a perfect gravel road. No building permits. Cheap property tax. Neighbors don't visit, no traffic driving by.

I go out and vote and then try to avoid political debate, news, etc. I'm not exactly burying my head in the sand, but it's sort-of close.

And then I'm building up my property (a homestead of sorts) and self-reliance.

I don't have any romantic ideas that I'm going to shut myself off from the world and do it all myself, but I do have the idea that I can limit my exposure to a large degree.

So far, it's been really nice.

The problem is that local politics don't really make the differences that people care most deeply about.

Maybe that should be different. This is why I'd like to see a more federalist approach. Where really passionate issues could be decided as locally as possible without everything having to be handled by the feds. That's how America was supposed to work, at least. A federation of states, not a country with administrative divisions.