Religiously, I settled on Zen Buddhism for myself. Not a whole lot to say, it's a practise for myself and I don't have much concern in the religious context for other people. I'm very happy to practise, and I know it feels as right in my heart as my choice to get married did on our wedding day.
Politically, I embraced pragmatic apathy. Growing up, I was quite embroiled in western politics, having volleyed back and forth across the aisle a few times. I never felt like I could reasonly ignore it as the illusion of importance was too strong and vast. As I became an adult, I met and befriended some very successful people who have a sensible approach to politics because they have a rock-solid baseline for what turmoil really is.
They were parents during a civil unrest in their home country, where over half the government basically resigned following the sixth re-election of a president that was growing really unpopular due to economic strain. In the chaos, there were all kinds of militants on the streets, and a very real danger swept over the city for a time as they were shooting to kill. They grouped together with their local community, forming a makeshift compound out of all of the houses nearby, and the men guarded the perimeter with clothing hangars as a first weapon and swords as a backup. Women and children went into the compound's interior for safety.
It's been a really long time since leading western countries have experienced things like that. It's not an experience we can relate to, because it's never gotten that bad in our lifetimes. This is why some people feel the need to invent issues and cause problems, because we're apparently too prosperous for our own good. The only reason they are taken seriously here is because their audience is ignorant of what strife looks like at home, and so they take the liberty of redefining it for their own personal gain. Meeting people outside of this theatre helped convince me that I don't have to care about things that don't personally affect me and it will harm me none in terms of success and fortune, probably actually helping me, even. I do care about laws that have real foreseeable consequences, but most of political discourse doesn't involve that, strangely.
Personally, I've been working on dismantling a lot of my behaviours of suspicion and skepticism with the people closest to me. It's a product of my upbringing, but I am doing okay to change it and be less on-edge with the things people say and what they mean by it. In the same strand, I am doing a lot better at holding myself accountable for my actions, and hold myself back from jumping to conclusions so I can be more rational about the world around me.