From 1955, it rises from lower left to upper right, inexorably, from 27 to 250, a 926% rise, lifted by mankind’s antigravity machine, the printing press. There’s only one little squiggle in 2009, when the index fell 0.35%.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-04-29/eric-peters-most-boring-chart-world-reveals-something-unexpected

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.