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You cannot control everything. It is foolish to think you can, or to even try. And no one is asking you to.

Clownworld is currently being run into the ground by people who think they can. They are mistaken, and so they do badly what needn't be done at all.

"The practice of right-living is deemed the highest, the practice of any other art lower. Complete virtue takes first place. The doing of anything else whatsoever is subordinate."
“He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.”
"What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the small man seeks is in others"
"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
"The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property."
- Confucious

In, "The Great Learning", Confucius revealed the process, step by step, by which self-development is attained.

"The ancients," he said, "when they wished to exemplify illustrious virtue throughout the empire, first ordered well their states. Desiring to order well their states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their purposes. Wishing to rectify their purposes, they first sought to think sincerely. Wishing to think sincerely, they first extended their knowledge as widely as possible. This they did by investigation of things."

"By investigation of things, their knowledge became extensive; their knowledge being extensive, their thoughts became sincere; their thoughts being sincere, their purposes were rectified; their purposes being rectified, they cultivated themselves; they being cultivated, their families were regulated; their families being regulated, their states were rightly governed; their states being rightly governed, the empire was thereby tranquil and prosperous."

Now, as a quick mental exercise, apply what you just read to what you know about who is running the country and how they are doing it.

Seek what Confucious termed, "junzi" (also known as "chün-tzu").

Junzi, in Chinese philosophy, a person whose humane conduct (ren) makes him a moral exemplar.

The term junzi was originally applied to princes or aristocratic men. Confucius invested the term with an ethical significance while maintaining its connotation of noble refinement. Unlike the petty person (xiaoren; literally, “little person”), who cannot transcend personal concerns and prejudices and acts only for his own gain, the junzi is cultured (wen) and knows how to act and speak appropriately in any situation; he is thus an exemplar whose virtuous influence promotes a flourishing human community (see de).

Becoming a junzi is the goal of all who practice such self-cultivation and who truly love learning, regardless of their birth or social status.

Confucius’s point is that the junzi is not a commander of or ruler over inferior subjects but rather a moral person who leads by his character and conduct.

https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/soothill-the-analects

And lack of belief in the very real spiritual aspect of all human existence is a reliable indicator of autism.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407781/

https://rsocialconscience.com/2013/06/02/autism-and-the-lack-of-spirituality/

https://religionnews.com/2022/07/29/having-autism-makes-finding-a-spiritual-community-difficult-here-are-some-ways-to-help/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/caring-autism/201809/autism-religion-and-spirituality