By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.
Do we really need more romance attached to the act of blowing people away?
If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?
... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.
You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.
We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.