"They advance through life by trampling the nice, right up until they try to step on the assertive, who promptly piss in their cornflakes, because they're not willing to put up with that shit. The assertive usually end up becoming the social leaders of the gullible idiots as a result, because they feel a genuine need to pay back their gratitude even when it's not expected of them. However, the headstrong nature of the assertive has a tendency to piss off the assaultive, those who are willing and ready to get violent if they have to. The legbreakers and warlords of the world have a tendency to either be supported by or to act in support of the manipulative, a defensive pact of schemers using strongmen and vice versa that has existed all the way right back to when the Philistines sent Goliath to do their dirty work."