Are we having our civil war(s) by proxy abroad? Like an advanced Star Trek (Original) culture we cherish comity too much to go after each other over drugs and gender so we fund gladiatorial scrimmages in Colombia, Central America and Asia.
Then, we dispassionately dissect the gory results over a handsomely appointed desk on a morning news talk show. Same as Star Trek there is no rush to finalize the discussion.

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so." -- Ronald Reagan

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals could believe them.”--George Orwell