> Reason, logic and strategic thinking is what we need Reason, logic and strategic thinking (hereafter, "they") don't get you palatable slogans like "Yes we ca

> Reason, logic and strategic thinking is what we need Reason, logic and strategic thinking (hereafter, "they") don't get you palatable slogans like "Yes we can" and "The Buck Stops Here". They don't empower you with the ability to shake a man's hand on the campaign trail and remember their name, their wife's name, and the details of their situation a year later (or the con-man ability to pretend they can through cold-reading). They don't teach you when to talk, when to shut up and listen, and how to effectively communicate your ideas to an audience. They don't teach you how and when to compromise your ideals to get somebody else's bill passed so that you can effectively curry political favor and capital on the issue that matters to you enough to uphold your campaign policies. Past that, the constitution (and thus, law) cannot be parsed in any programmatic or logical way. Without that understanding, you can't know what is or isn't constitutional, or even if something is or isn't constitutional, whether or not it's likely to be upheld by a system of courts, or what words to use during its planning phase such that the legislative record reflects the best chances of ensuring it be read by the courts in the manner you desire. All that said, I freely acknowledge that the abilities to schmooze, read and write law, and effectively sway others to your belief do not necessarily empower you to understand climate data, or the ecological impact of a tariff on solar panels, or the technological impact of a blockchain. Either way, we need a diverse group of people in power - true diversity, in the usual ways as well as in the experiential, cultural and viewpoint diversity metrics to truly represent the many valid ideas to be had within the electorate. Of course, the more diversity you have within a legislature, the more they tend to disagree on things ,and the less likely you are to get compromise. Personally, I maintain that's a feature of the legislature, but considering every time Congress is seen as 'do-nothing', their approval ratings drop, which is why political parties tend to coalesce behind a few divisive issues and then just kind of fall in line or not give much credence to the remainder, using rhetoric to blame the other party for its woes.