I mean the US doesn’t punish bad behaviour.

Giving Nixon a pardon is just another in a long line of “this is a time for unity” and “we need to move past this” going back to the civil war.

You think the game is war but it’s actually government grift.

It’s also because these problems are multifaceted, layered and complex and generally don’t have simple solutions.

They often gravitate to a “solution” that they “understand” and right wing politics have been pretty good at promoting those “solutions”.