I've been sending this @YAppelbaum essay to some high school history teachers I know. I think young people are eager to understand what is happening - and if it's always been like this.https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/how-america-ends/600757/ …
Perhaps the most pernicious and persistent cognitive bias is that which blinds us to the fragility and instability of long-familiar circumstances. We are far too prone to believe that what we have always known must always be -- that major changes to the status quo are impossible.