Politics has slogged through the mud before, and has managed to survive. Ours is not a completely clean, muck-free political journey in America. It's just that politics, as an entity of society, is being way to kind to itself calling itself a "science." That science is supposed to be in an effort to discover societal truth from mere theory. In America, that effort is unniquely stated, in the Constitution's Preamble, to be an effort "to form a more perfect union" than any yet devised in the history of man. "More perfect" is exactly what it says: an effort to improve our society. Perfection is not a destination; it is a never-ending process, meaning that perfection comes in small, foreward steps toward being better today than yesterday. That comes only by correct application of theories of societal cooperation, not by blind activation of theorey with no effort to seek to do it better today than yesterday, and that is why politics is not, and never will be science until it does try to work upon the road of what theory to truth requires.