"Because this preoccupation with gossip that determines peoples’ fates rewards the purveyors of it, the process is self-reinforcing... News is rarely news rather than hyped gossip about high profile people in government and on other big stages."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-09/bridgewaters-dalio-decries-americas-trial-gossip-new-normal
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.