True, but in our current regime in the US, it seems that both sides assiduously ignore technocrats in nearly every field. I think this is because the magnitude

True, but in our current regime in the US, it seems that both sides assiduously ignore technocrats in nearly every field. I think this is because the magnitude of our problems has been calling for large scale change in several related fields for some time. Of course, the trouble is that the technocrats are supposed to tell the government how to do something, but we seem to have fixated on actually doing nothing while looking busy. Our government would rather not change, in spite of all external evidence that we should.