So easy for you to be idealistic, reminds me of my youth. I wonder how you'd be like when you have this feeling. But you're lucky you never have to experience it. Here's for you.
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin
If I lose my idealism I become like everyone else, pragmatic and then, Machiavellian. Not going there.
I live by Baldwin's quote. People deride me for it because it dents their comfort bubble. That won't change either.
Sadly, that is how the world operates right now. The Machiavellian alpha males of the world.