Part of the problem also seems to be the use of experts not to explain or even predict but to manipulate events and to hide downsides in service of that manipul

Part of the problem also seems to be the use of experts not to explain or even predict but to manipulate events and to hide downsides in service of that manipulation. E.g. Free trade - easy to love for consumers, economists, and people whose jobs aren't so easily transferable. Not so much for factory workers. The old jobs left, and the new ones which people were assured would materialize because of all of the new prosperity didn't. Another part of the problem seems to lie in skepticism and how to properly apply it. The closest I think anyone in the US comes to seeing a substantive debate is on the Sunday morning political shows and I'm sure it's still wrong, wrong, and wrong.