Public opinion is not that important. All you need is government money given to research new technology that will make for viable competition. The economics wil

Public opinion is not that important. All you need is government money given to research new technology that will make for viable competition. The economics will take care of the rest. And regarding the public, the public has plenty of reasons to be skeptical. We've been given Iraq WMDs, Obama birth certificate hysteria (more people believed this than you think), now Russia/Trump hysteria. All of this ends up being hot air. So when you tell people they have 10 years to live if we don't do a 180 on our economy, what do you expect them to say?