You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else make yours. Check small things. Have a vision. Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will pledge with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. Kissinger in an address to the Bilderberg organization meeting at Evian, France, May 21, 1992. Transcribed from a tape recording made by one of the Swiss delegates.