The countries have leaders who don't seem to regard the people under their care as a primary responsibility—their health, happiness, fulfillment, and peace of mind. While leaders cannot satisfy these goals, they can work to provide conditions for realizing them, and, even more important, they are, alas, very capable of totally destroying the conditions for them existing. I feel as if my health, happiness, fulfillment, and peace of mind are severely damaged by this administration, for example. Why does country after country, century after century, end up with people in positions of power and leadership who are so destructive? So counterproductive? So besotted with ideology instead of kindness?