All political movements of all stripes run on "all this bullshit" the only difference is the flavour of bullshit they run on - this is the fundamental difference between politics and engineering, politics is about people (irrational, fearful, self-interested, dishonest ...) while engineering is about things (they just are). No matter how much we may wish otherwise the world of people is run by politics not engineering - the tricky part is to avoid being led over the edge of the cliff by the politicians.