Funny, I can write the exact opposite of your point with that same argument. A lot of engineers dealing with highly complex problems know that things are more

Funny, I can write the exact opposite of your point with that same argument. A lot of engineers dealing with highly complex problems know that things are more intricate than they appear on the surface. (Compare the BP oil well disaster to a cut firehose, seemingly analogous, but almost every solution to the second will not work on the first) Often the elegant solution that works in theory fails in practice, and requires several iterations adding subsystems to deal with small problems that crop up in testing. Politicians that see only in black and white really ignore these inconvient details while they espose rhetoric and focus on reelection. Their simplistic and naive view of the world doesn't allow them to tackle the hard problems that take nuance and balancing benefit against unintended side effects.