Politicians aren't here to offer to solution or to improve the state of the country, they are here to maintain themselves in power and reward their friends. The

Politicians aren't here to offer to solution or to improve the state of the country, they are here to maintain themselves in power and reward their friends. Their friends don't like fusion, and supporting fusion would make it less likely for them get reelected. Until the winds change and supporting fusion would make it more likely for them to get reelected, they will be making up all sort of stuff of why we should waste money in less proven and more unreliable, and possibly dirtier sources of energy.