One wonders just how disappointed Americans are going to be when the hard-data reality hits and the almost record high hopes of rising incomes is dashed on the shores of "unambiguously bad" low oil prices....
"Hopium"

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-16/wtf-chart-day-hopium-edition

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.