In many cases, I thought "it's messed up".
To ensure my sanity, sometimes I needed to check my basis of judgement. For the judgement purpose on politics, I usually use two axes; (i) Merit and (ii) Moral.
(i) is simple; "Will it benefit me and people around me, or not." Benefit can be time, money, labor, relations, products, etc. Now or in the future.
(ii) is also simple. "That is acceptable or unacceptable (or, right or wrong), based on my value system".
Unless (i) and (ii) conflict, the process is easy. I'll take "merit-acceptable", and run from "demerit-unacceptable".
They say, thinking and judging takes mental power, just like hard physical activity makes you tired. Too much thinking and judging drains energy; probably it is true. So I want to keep my process of judgement simple.
This year, it was brought to my attention that there are people with blatantly different value system from mine. That was why I started to pay more attention to people around. What kind of value system he/she has, how he/she acts, on what principle, and what's in it for him/her.
In my judgement, I predict some people would remain successful or unsuccessful. Others may deserve better life. .....But it's their life. I'd say nothing.
Unless the person change his/her way of thinking and acting from within, the universe is going to stay the same for him/her. That is for certain.
Oh, and I almost forgot to say one important thing.
I don't have to judge everything.
There are many things that I don't know well about, I have no relations to, or that don't concern me. Just leave them be. It's good for sanity, too.
Only when the particular issue would get involved in my life a few steps ahead, I'd think about it. I can ignore Fox news and some tweets entirely and live just fine (or probably it's better than just fine).
