Linking !hopeposting@lemmy.world but this really doesn’t fit the format there.

Behing hopeful for better times during a bad time is different from being delusional of living in a good time while in fact living in a dystopian hellscape.

20+ years ago, my PUBLIC high school history teacher busted Zinn’s book out during class, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People's_History_of_the_United_States. Definitely an eye opener but these days he would probably have a bunch of Karen parents complaining about it.