"...a functioning democratic republic is premised on a simple agreement that We (the people) will freely choose our leaders... The intervention of the Federal Reserve into that equation, controlling interest rates, outright purchasing assets, and plainly goosing asset prices has introduced a cancer into the nation which has now metastasized.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-13/how-fed-destroyed-functioning-american-democracy-and-bankrupted-nation

Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.