Liberalism’s nannyism is a play toward the natural human(ist) tendency to believe yourself to be “elite”.
My libinlaw once stated that “60% of the people are too dumb to make their own decisions”. Right there was the implication that she was “special”, an “elite”, not one of “those people that can’t make their own decisions”.
No thought was given as to why it didn’t use to be that way,
or that liberal policy actually ENCOURAGES incompetence.
When your policy is based on “someone pooped their pants so you all have to wear diapers”, the next step is to make sure that more people poop their pants in order to justify your policy.
Was this person a school teacher or educrat or some other form of government employee. Government types certainly believe that because the programs they administer are such Rube Goldberg structures that they can't explain them to any normal taxpayer and get very angry and defensive that the taxpayers don't have a properly respectful attitude towards the administrative class.