lots of people have learned the wrong lesson from discovering that there is a dark side to the overly simplistic history/civics/etc. you were taught as a child : knowing about that dark side doesn’t mean that you’re smarter than everyone else.
Indeed, the rest of us are also fully aware of that dark side, we just cope with it differently. Falling into the pit of despair over it's existence isn't a virtue.
You should have heard them back when they were saying that only conversations about The Menace of the USSR were serious.
Interesting, now I think about it, that they're not on like that about Russia. Though round about 2016 they did do China.
There’s at least one well-loved Internet forum that I’ve mostly abandoned, specifically because any discussion of good news was considered inconsiderate of people who were impacted by bad news.
