... handing Little Hawk a gold star ...

Excellent. Political "science" is just as hampered by its history as are all other forms of academia. It has taken centuries for the "experts" to convince themselves and most people that earth is no longer flat, nor the center of the universe, and that fire, earth, water and air are no longer the basic elements. Unfortunately, there are many people today who consider themselves "experts" on politics, and who are just as dogmatic or expedient as the inquisitors of a few centuries past. Getting a significant fraction of them onto the same page might take millenia at the current rate of progress.

~S~