The cynical answer is they knew about the potential dark side all along and didn’t care, because to acknowledge it might have undermined the aforementioned licences to print money."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-19/how-half-educated-tech-elite-delivered-us-chaos

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.