Ask HN: Coping with Politics in 2025?

Stop following the news? My recipe for success for 10 years now and counting. The news is meant to elicit views, clicks, and emotional reactions. Why would you subject yourself to that on a regular basis, or at all?

Watch Youtube videos of handyman folks helping other handyman folks and realize most of humanity should only care about that.

Random one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxLv6HooGPA

I ignore it. Use filtering mechanisms if it occurs in places you don't want to ditch entirely (i.e. on HN I block certain key words and sites).

It's way too incomprehensible and corrosive for my mind otherwise.