To be a Great Nation, Study Politics

   So, supposing it is true that if a nation is to be great at science, it should devote more time to studying science than do other nations. Same with basketball, music, computers, or whatever. My thought has been, if you want to be great at whatever endeavor, train your people in the subject. If you practice and train more than your competitors, you probably will be better than your competitors
  (Your thought probably is, No kidding, Einstein. No big revelation there. So, be off with you.)
  Just the same, I will continue the line of thought, and take it to politics. I say, if a nation would be great in how it governs its people, how it treats its citizens, a little training is in order.
  Or, a lot.
   We being a nation that likes to think we, the people, have a hand in government, would we be a better governed nation, would we come up with better public policy, if we trained ourselves, if we studied the issues as a people?
  (I can hear that No-kidding-Einstein thought coming from you, again.)
  If we would be the best-governed people, we would do well to be the most reflective society. If a nation is to be great, it must take time to reflect on what is best for its people. That reflection -- taking time to consider and ponder what is best -- can also be considered a form of training. But, more. That nation must educate its people in the history of the social issues. It must educate them in social sciences. Should we have gun control? Well, what do the studies say of the impact of guns? Should we allow abortion? What are the effects? What are the benefits and what are the losses?
   Now, when people only learn one side of the issue, it limits them. Rather than being in position to be reflective, they are only in position to argue their own side. Better that they learned both sides of the issue.