——who have decided the rest of us aren’t smart enough to govern ourselves——
Well, in many ways that is true....
We have let the progressives successfully dumb down, brainwash, make dependent vast numbers of Americans...
They have been trained to look to the government whenever life becomes overwhelming because they have been denied the critical thinking skills and ability to take care of themselves...
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.