You're wrong on the Founders. They set a system in motion that was founded on principals that were pointing us toward freedom and justice.
"Experts" are great, but what do we do when so many experts disagree? Do we allow the government to choose which experts we can hear, and those whose opinions we're not allowed to hear? Over time, the truth does rise to the surface. If that isn't true, then we should simply acquiesce to the "progressive" (regressive) idea that we must be ruled by an elite group of experts, who feed us only what they want us to know.