The more you know about what's happening in the world, the less happy you'll probably be.
If you don't pay attention to it you'll be uninformed, but if you do pay attention to it you'll be misinformed. And miserable. It's quite the conundrum.
You need to remember that "the news", when the topic is anything political, is fake. It's all lies.
One way to deal with this is to not listen to anything going on outside your personal sphere. You'll run the risk of being blindsided by something horrible you didn't see coming because you weren't paying attention, but you'll avoid the constant bad feeling of knowing what's happening in other places-- things you can do nothing about.
Which is worse? Which will have more of an impact on your quality of life? It may depend on who you are.
People who use politics against others are just the worst. It's dangerous to not watch them and see what they are doing, but it is going to ruin your life if you spend much time seeing the evil they are perpetuating on everyone around them.
