I actually want to have the elite, elite in the real sense of that word. Elite science, medicine, urban planning, ecology... I want to have the freedom to choose my future wife, to travel, get the desired education, to choose the pathway of my life. 

Everything else is not a freedom but a pair of jackals and unnecessary, time-consuming task of making countless decisions I simply not competent to make. 

What do I think about powerplants -I don't, I have no clue
Where the bridge should be built and how - I have no idea, don't ask me

Even if I get some calculations, simulations, whatever about the bridge near the nuclear power plant, my decision is very, very easy to form. Give me a single hint - and I will vote for that.
I will certainly not going to examine the problem from all the aspects and make any more informative decision in comparison to the decision of "the elite".

I'm very afraid of "crowd thinking" because during the 90' we have collectively decided to kill each other. It was a brilliant idea. Completely democratic. It was a very rational decision to make at that very moment. 20 years latter - Why we were sooo stupid!?
There were some experts with graphs and calculations, but there were fearmongers who offered free guns. Mmm, free guns, completely logical, because we are going to win in a week or two. 

Problem is that evidence in the head of an expert is very different from the evidence in the head of an ignorant.