I suspect that has more to do with "people in leadership positions" than with physics. Or, for that matter, car sales, fast food, or software development... Dun

I suspect that has more to do with "people in leadership positions" than with physics. Or, for that matter, car sales, fast food, or software development... Dunno which is chicken and which is egg, but: Positions like that attract a certain kind of people to begin with, and positions like that shape people into politicians. In all fields.