>Experts have always been involved in carrying
>out policy (bigger government means more such
>experts). Bigger government maybe means more
>complicated policy questions, hence greater
>need for experts in that vein too.
That's not the problem - it's that whole areas of policy - economic and foreign, to take two - are written out of political discourse and reserved for experts. No one doubts that it requires experts to handle the nuts & bolts, but the big questions are supposed to be decided democratically and they're not.
Doug