Appreciate the thoughtful response. A few thoughts:

Generally agree with your assessment of where we are headed if nothing changes. Agree that a small amount of time spent on decentralized and censorship resistant protocols like bitcoin and nostr provides resilience in an increasingly fragile world. 

However, in the OP you mentioned there’s no reason to pay attention to say the debate because it doesn’t matter sighting the fact that the sitting president isn’t all there and ‘nothings changed.’ That’s the point I’m trying to make - things should change. Certain parts of public life are not acceptable in my opinion. 

Generally I want less war, more reasonableness. It’s my right to inform myself about who may best achieve those objectives. 

Also. The word politics is rooted in the Latin ‘politi’ meaning public. It’s just all the things we do together. It’s how define how best to get along with one another and most importantly, it is the alternative to war. And I agree that politics is not my ultimate source of my hope - that is foolish and will result in despair because politicians (like all of us) are selfish and flawed. 

The only point I meant to make is that resignation from politics entirely yields ground to whoever desires that power. And some power seekers are in fact worse than others. Therefore we should seek to empower those who would wield their authority well (even if it is the lesser of two evils which is often the case). All the while we should (as you said) become antifragile, wise, resilient through self sovereign censorship resistant protocols.