And may I add that to a certain community(s), this phenomenon has been exacerbated by the enabling welfare state. Keep in mind that this whole “Mouse experiment” is one big social welfare state experiment (free food, free living quarter, protection of predators / competition), if you look at it from a socioeconomic stand point.
Where have you been? That is Montecrusty’s MO. Always has been a has been when it comes to making anything into a thoughtful intelligent post based on a honest disposition!
Along the latter is what I would attributed this disposition and self loathing to submitting to nihilistic purveyance that the post modern paradigm nurtured into being by-products of late capitalism.
And so was Churchill. Your example focused on the bad leaders. Mine focused on the good. But everyone held their breath, wondering who would prevail.
In our present case, the world is holding its breath, waiting to see if Trump is going to undo the damage that Obama did with his apologies and divisive anti-American rhetoric.