A true empiricist would conclude from history and observation that the main requirement for leadership on this planet was an overwhelming lust for power and absolute control, and an ability to coerce obedience and loyalty from large numbers of people.

A community organizer would probably have these traits. Scientists and engineers, if they're any good at their jobs, don't.

Einstein on the presidency of Israel:

"I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel [to serve as President], and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it.

All my life I have dealt with objective matters, hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to exercise official functions.

For these reasons alone I should be unsuited to fulfill the duties of that high office, even if advancing age was not making increasing inroads on my strength. I am the more distressed over these circumstances because my relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world."

A polite way of saying that a brilliant man immersed in objective reality would make a crappy politician.

As for Heinlein, I don't think he ever said anything like that.

Here's what he did say:

"Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria.

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort."

I don't want political power, and except for extremely limited functions, I don't want anybody else to have it either. You can't seem to comprehend this, which is why you keep trying to shoehorn me into some kind of "libertarian dictator." You can't think outside of the central authority box.