Who said that politics can't be an empirical science? I, for one, am inspired: "Think about all the hot air and argumentation about a whole host of different p

Who said that politics can't be an empirical science? I, for one, am inspired: "Think about all the hot air and argumentation about a whole host of different political issues—freedom vs. security, absolute wealth vs. inequality, strong family vs. tolerance, open vs. closed borders, whatever the topic du jour is. Instead of deciding them through rhetoric, or voting on a few representatives to decide them for tens or hundreds of millions of people at once, imagine if we could try them each on a small scale and see what happens."