Peter Schiff, a stock market analyst, said in his recent podcast that Americans just don’t want the truth. Schiff says that it is very likely that we are already in a recession and no one wants to accept that or even deal with it.
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/peter-schiff-nobody-wants-to-deal-with-the-truth-that-this-economy-is-going-into-recession_12062018

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.