this stems from the lack of engineers intrest in politics, until its
too late.
Not necessarily a lack of interest, but that most engineers are not in
much of a position to influence a political decision.
A recent article in Slashdot covers this in some respects. Although the
article tends to label engineers as selfish, the author raises some
relevant (imho) points on the role that engineers are able to play in
technology policy-making.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/07/24/202207&mode=thread