@p yeah I agree, other people, especially people in power, telling me what's best for me is hella creepy, condescending, orwellian, and that stuff.
I don't expect politicians to have my best interest in mind.
They're obviously self-interested.
It's the job of the system to incentivize them to not make too many people too angry at them.
Ideally, they'd do that by implementing good policies, but they might try other, more manipulative ways. Who would've seen that coming!