You're dead right and stems from this relentless American competitiveness which is raised to unhealthy and socially divisive levels by Yankee media and news. It is all about self comparisons with others. And that inevitably means comparing with two extremes, either much better than you, or much worse than you. A recipe for long term depression and over medication with opioids etc. All of which is rife in Yankee land. Either that pull out a gun and start blowing people away. Another peculiar Yankee trait. They see kids as a natural hook for this kind of shitty psychological strategy.