| the most able body of people in the country Most able at what? Most people who are in elected office, or who have been in elected office, have a certain repertoire of skills in getting along with other people and in keeping track of mutual obligations that helps make the political process work. Some scientists or engineers who become politicians http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/jimmycarter http://mcnerney.house.gov/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern_Ehlers http://holt.house.gov/ http://olver.house.gov/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Foster_(Illinois_politicia... http://sharp.sefora.org/issues/111th-congress-degrees-by-typ... have had some degree of those skills, and some people with other academic degrees have gained understanding of how science relates to public policy. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9226.html But scientists and engineers are still fallible human beings, http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300123852 and the political process will still come under influence of concentrated interest groups http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/PublicChoice.html regardless of which people fill the offices. |