"Why did restaurants go to Brooklyn? Because it’s cool? No, because it was cheap, and [because] restaurateurs were sick of giving investors’ money away so they could pay thir rent."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-25/amazon-killing-nyc-retailers-or-rent-just-too-damn-high

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.