"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government" --Thomas Jefferson

But also a country that values education is more likely to value the opinion of an expert, more likely to question a promise or political sound bite.

E2E encryption is a good example of the divide between politics and the science. I'm not saying that the computer scientists have the answer here, but ignoring what they say is not the way to come to a policy that will benefit the country.