Almost only devote religious people like Obama are allowed to climb to power in the West. Germany’s chancellor Merkel had to play down that she was a physicist in order to ensure the voters trust her to be aligned with the obsessions of her “Christian Democratic Union”.

In China, scientists decide at the highest level for many years. Science bloggers dream about secular people in the most important political positions, of science having effective influence "up there". While they yearn, secular scientists occupy the most important political positions in the most important country in the world.

Liu Yandong: 1964-1970 Student of the Department of Engineering Chemistry of Qinghua University, 1970-1972 technician and workshop head of Kaiping Chemical Plant, 1972-1978 Beijing Chemical Experiment Plant, … . Today, she is one of the world’s most politically influential and powerful females. Scientist – secular – unknown to Western intellectuals of the pretend sciency or feminist variety – go figure.

In China, science was not a campaign promise forgotten one minute after the vote:

"It's amazing," says Alice Lyman Miller, a China scholar at Stanford University and editor of China Leadership Monitor, "the thought of the entire Politburo sitting around and listening to academics for hours." [time magazine]

The science community pretends to encourage more science inside politics. They demand future directed, secular, peaceful leadership. Hu Jintao is clearly secular, a scientist, a humble person who went through hardship – carrying bricks belongs to his resume. Via the Scientific Development Concept toward a harmonious society, Hu and people like him made science the leading ideology (!) of a quarter of the human population. Hu established "Follow Science, discard Ignorance!" as the third of his Eight Honors and Disgraces. China's former main doctrine has been effectively replaced by secular science as the official leading ideology!

Hu Jintao has a scientific background and worked as an engineer building hydroelectric power stations. He also studied Buddhism in order to facilitate the dialogue with religious.

These are successes for science and secularism, yet science media or "new atheists" never mention it. Why? Of course much of the science in China is pretend, like all political doctrines everywhere (and like much of science anyway). Or is it that China shows us another example for how undemocratic scientists are? Because of China, Asia takes over the role of scientific leader, but that does not mean paradise is afoot.

Intellectuals' selective perception and loyalty lies with the institutionalized corruption in the power structures that ensure their own positions. Academia is corrupt. Intellectuals want to believe the ridiculous media distortions about rival political systems. In the West, collaboration with and belief in an ill-defined pseudo-democratic doctrine rationalizes their own lifestyle. Something similar goes on in China of course. Wherever science doesn’t support indoctrination, scientists disregard it.

Hu Jintao is just a single example for a guy from one of the poorest provinces in China being able through dedication to the cause and hard work to influence political decisions. He knows science, and his consensus seeking style has made science important in China. The Chinese political system has made it possible that such could make it all the way to the most important position. The Western systems have to still prove that they can offer similar.

Some of you see the end coming, global warming and overpopulation killing us. You want science to have more influence on politics soon. China is the only country where science, lowering population growth and city sprawling, and many other crucial topics had been taken seriously. Some of you fear religion to be the biggest future threat of all. China is basically the only country where secularism is still taken seriously.

Hu Jintao’s last term in office comes to an end in the fall of 2012. The future of science, secularism, and the whole world will be decided in the important 2012 elections, by the responsible committees. I hope they can find replacements that understand the importance of science as much as Hu, people that grasp the importance of their predecessors’ role and positive influence. One promising candidate, Xi Jinping, has a background in organic chemistry and seems to see Hu as the role model.

You go ahead and vote for Romney or Obama, whoever you feel runs the US down further into the gutter faster; it does not matter. They all agree on that science comes after religion and personal gain. The important 2012 elections do not allow religious zealots or callous businessmen to deceive masses of silly consumers. The 2012 elections are held in Beijing.

There is only one more important election: You vote every day, with what you eat, what you buy, what you read, what you say, what you do.