Most of your post seems to be a rant about liberals legislating things like seatbelts and trans-fats. That's a whole different issue than the one I replied to. Your story wasn't about liberals forcing you to do what your doctor advises. It was about the choice to follow that advice or not.

Bringing it back to your original theory, you seem to feel that because liberals agree with experts more often than not, they don't think for themselves. First of all, that's a big jump in logic. You could just as easily claim that means that liberals are smarter (I'm not claiming that, although I've heard plenty on these boards that do).

Second, I don't think it's correct. What about economic policy? I'd venture to say that the vast majority of economics experts you'd hear from (until very recently) are free market oriented and favor free trade (how many socialist economists do you know of?). Liberals, at least of the less moderate variety, tend to lean toward more government regulation and against free trade. According to your theory they'd do the opposite.

This is the same stupid stereotype as the one that says conservatives are all robots that blindly follow leaders like George Bush even when they're exposed as incompetent. People follow those who they trust and agree with. It's just who those people are that is different.