Cap as a character is wholly Conservative, with Libertarian leanings …Oxymoron.
Say what you want about me! But once I find out some dude is a “pole-smoker” I’m gone! This ain’t nothing new. rock hudson, james dean... “cookie cookie lend me your comb”... I have a “natural ‘adverse’ reaction to the ‘unnatural’” It’s really pretty simple.
Bucky was his best friend. Steve had a mad crush on a woman and was devastated to find that while he was trapped in the ice, she had grown old. His opportunity to marry his true love was lost.
In EG3, he went back in time and married her, spending their lives together until the day she died.
The libertarians were letting their imaginations run wild.