At a time like this the essential virtues are imagination, self-scrutiny, a willingness to question the most basic ideas. Confusion serves the beneficial purpose of leaving one to the mercies of experience. But allowing experience to make an impression requires an effort of will. By habit we know what we think, especially in public. You can read a long article apparently full of the spirit of self-questioning and discover at the end that the author hasn't entertained one really new thought, like a dog sniffing all over the yard before going to squat in the same old spot.
Confusion requires training.
It might even be a good idea to start a file of items that suggest you were wrong. L anguage plays a key role in disguising confusion from self and others. Abstract terms like equality, freedom, community, and justice do at least as much to enable thinking around dilemmas as thinking through them. Their use, implying an organized body of people and ideas, is flattering but doesn't correspond to the reality of incoherence and flux and may prevent us from recognizing unlikely allies and useful ideas when they come along. No one knows what the next reform impulse will look like or where it will come from.