Maybe this expert would like to pick the citizens’ cell-phones, also. I’d almost appreciate that, given the confusing features of the phones, and the usage plans. Yet, something tells me people would still prefer to choose their own.
Cars, computers, TV’s all entail complicated choices pitting a potentially mind-boggling array of features/options against a large number of price-points. Heck, some people reportedly have difficulty choosing a box of cereal from among the dozens offered in a typical supermarket. Speaking of which, nutrition itself is pretty damned complicated with even experts disagreeing on what constitutes the best diet etc.
So where exactly should the nanny state stop in protecting citizens from their own dumb choices? Perhaps we need an expert panel to tell us how to vote too: as we saw in Florida in 2000, even that gets too complicated for a non-trivial fraction of voters.
But as with all such schemes, the question remains: who will guard the guardians? Given the corruption that pervades this administration, can they really be trusted to make choices that are in OUR interests rather than THEIRS?