"My anger and outrage has helped me aid numerous political campaigns and individuals with money, time and emotional support."
I hope your correct in this; I've felt similarly in the past.
As I've gotten older, I've felt more like a lot of what I was seeing as useful action was the fantasy of useful action. That is, I haven't seen a lot of real gains or losses due to my own political actions.
Maybe I just don't give enough money or knock on enough doors.
But as I've gotten older it's felt more and more that this is just engaging in a particular kind of fantasy role playing.
Perhaps it is true that I can disengage with this kinds of political anger because I can look like I can pass as a white cishet male.
Consider, however, that the only folks who can actually make political gains are people that are already in a position of some amount of power and privilege. The basic premise of incremental change is that the kinds of changes that you'd like to see are sustainable via the system you're interacting with.
To take a specific example from my own set of stuff that pisses me off, I believe that the system of policing where I live is systematically racist.
I would never have a problem with people advocating for incremental changes and I've seen people make small gains in those directions.
However, I believe that the complete disarmament of the police for and more or less the total abolition of prisions is the only workable solution.
I wholly understand that this position is not a moderate position and is probably not something many people agree with, and I neither expect other people to see it as reasonable nor want to support that view here.
I bring it up, rather, because there is no incremental change that I can see which will bring about the conditions under the system where I live.
So I've more or less given up on following news on this front: there is nothing that I can do about the fact that the racist Texas "justice" system has incarcerated some lady for 5 years for voter fraud. I'm neither surprised nor do I feel like there is something that I can do to convince Ken Paxton, et al, that they aren't terrible, terrible people. There's just nothing that can be done that is going to correct that kind of problem in the world.
So, while I think you're correct in asserting that there is a certain amount of privilege in ignoring the news, I point out this:
there is a certain amount of intersectionality with a system involved in believing that you can incrementally change that system to operate with justice.