Anytime you have idealistic rationalists in charge (read: people divorced from reality who want the rest of the world to resemble the ideas floating around in their heads), you are going to have a crappy unworkable society. We don’t need anymore conveyer-belts from elite colleges to positions of power. Instead, we need more empirical thinkers. That, as simple as it is, is the problem.
Thomas Sowell once pointed out that liberals dominate government and academia because those are two institutions where you can thrive even if you suck at doing anything right.