Believe me, I'm well aware of this sentiment. My friend I've mentioned before will explicitly tell me sometimes how he thinks people in general are too stupid to handle their own lives, though his proposed solution is to have benevolent AIs run our society instead of democratically-elected representatives (which,
as I brought up in FuhrerBob's thread, is even more retarded). He's become increasingly blackpilled over time and is probably close to becoming a hermit innawoods or something. I dunno, he's got problems, but he's good aside from that, which is why we don't talk politics often (and if we do, I don't antagonize, because he's coming pretty close to realizing how much bullshit there is on the left and I don't want to push him away).
I think a lot of them want a totalitarian dictatorship because they believe they'll be in a position of power due to spouting all the correct opinions and being on the Right Side of History™, unaware that they're the useful idiots that would be first against the wall once they've outlived their purpose.