This. Worse is watching otherwise intelligent friends parrot the crap you see coming out of the propaganda arms of each party or party faction. They accept wh

This. Worse is watching otherwise intelligent friends parrot the crap you see coming out of the propaganda arms of each party or party faction. They accept what they hear uncritically, as it feeds into their own beliefs (confirmation bias), without questioning the basis/interpretation. I've found for me, the lowest anxiety manner in which to consume news, is generally, to not consume it. In most cases, news in the US is propaganda (left, right, doesn't matter). It is a set of partial observations passed through ideological filters and summarized according to the desires of the presenters. There are no US based "news" organizations that do not have stakes in the outcome of their blather.