If you can't beat em, join em... at least that seems to be the mantra of long-short hedge fund managers who, after under performing the S&P consistently over the past 8 years, have decided to ditch their shorts, sending net exposures soaring.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-11/long-short-hedge-funds

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.