I was just wondering what are your thoughts about the "Technocracy movement" (http://goo.gl/KZNAXr) which was actually a political movement in the 1900s that wanted to replace all the politicians with scientists and engineers
In my opinion that would be a much better alternative than what we have now with over 80% of the politicians being lawyers or businessman. There is a good discussion on reddit, but I'm curious about your thoughts on that.
I'd prefer it to be a truly representative body. Rather than stacking it with lawyers (as it is now) or even scientists (which, honestly, would likely be leagues better than lawyers), it should be people from all different professions and educations.
The problem is that politics is a career now, when it used to be viewed as a temporary civic duty. We've basically created a new aristocracy. Term limits would help. The 22nd amendment only allows the President 2 four year terms, so why do we still allow Senators unlimited 6 year terms and Representatives unlimited 2 year terms? It's because the only people who can install term limits are the very people who benefit from having no term limits... Congressmen.
Mini rant aside, it is cool to think that once upon a time there was an intellectual movement in politics. Today, a lot of people seem to value the traits you'd look for in a drinking buddy in their political representatives. Intelligence is almost viewed as a bad thing. And elitist thing. Somehow un-American. It's baffling.
Politicians who studied law or business should not make decisions on science and engineering in my opinion. But they do and it's illogical.
I don't think all politicians should be replaced, but those who make decisions on technology and research in the STEM fields should be people who studied it at a tertiary level, not pretentious/elitist people who think they are entitled to make decisions on things they don't understand.