What I actually worry about, and has become a serious reality in the UK, is something on a par with North Korean propaganda, anyone who is prepared to report things exactly as they are, even without the catastrophising is dismissed as negative, unwelcome, worse than a pessimist but someone likely to cause depression in themselves or others.
In my home town, a number of times, the council has commissioned building sized facades which when the town is ever on camera (it is in close proximity to an annual motorbike road race and has public statues/memorial gardens to riders who made the sport famous and died in the process) it does not look like the majority of the buildings are actually derelict (even the former banks).
Now in theory this is not simply about "taking the bad look of things" when the town is featured in TV broadcasts but backed by academic research from the US and criminologists in, I think it was Chicago, I cant remember the proper title but they used to refer to it as the "broken windows" research when I was a university. Whatever the reasons it really, really made me think of that movie The Interview which featured phony towns in North Korea.
What I have found is this sort of thinking infects EVERYTHING so you have politicians and public works who care about nothing other than things looking good on paper or being positively reported whatever the reality happens to actually be, when reports which actually reflect reality happen instead of responding to the report most of the time they deal with whoever made the report, hence the condemnation of them as "negative".
I can see how this is reflected in what is trending politically, globally too but I think its particularly bad in this part of the world, which already had a whole host of ways of shutting down any public disclosure of how pathetically bad things were already. When I travelled with my brother and friends to the US the first time they said to me to be prepared for "culture shock". I was expecting it was going to be something about the inequality in the big cities, although rough sleeping has become as popular a pass time here since the end of the troubles. What they really meant was that things were actually so good in the US that you'd question why things were so bad back home.
For some time now I've thought the biggest problem is that "back home" people are still seriously kidding themselves that "things are just fine" or "things are great" and "we are the envy of the world" kind of thing, its the sort of delusion that I think has been fuelling the Brexit debate and idea that the UK, despite not even being as big as Texas, could become a rival to the EU, which is 27 member states.