I honestly don't understand why more people don't understand the nanny-state. Nanny-states have been with us for many years. All go down the same road, at different speeds. They have different names, like communism, socialism, liberal, leftist, etc. When people look to a central government for solutions to their problems, that government must charge them for the "service". (Farmers still understand that word.)
The first unavoidable consequences of this action are that in a large country the inefficiency of "one size fits all" solutions make the price necessarily much higher than if the individual had purchased the "service" closer to home, and the "service" itself fits less well. And once you're talking real money, the central government has to use forceful means to collect it.
The closer the nanny state gets to its eventual death, the faster it comes apart. To get enough money to continue to operate, it must turn most of the populace into slaves, and the rest into overseers, paid with money of the slaves.
But every time the slaves have a problem, they shout "give us another Law". Not recognizing that 99% of the laws they already have aren't working very well, and one more will just make the situation worse. And since governments have to hire more overseers to enforce most laws, now there is a "constituency" to tell us how dire things will be if their paycheck goes away. So bad laws live forever.
While the examples of the above would fill many pages, I'll limit my examples.
The World Trade Towers disaster. We had, for several years, been paying for overseers to both check slave ID's and then disarm them, before we let them on airplanes. We had many government agencies like the FBI and CIA to ferret out terrorists. Those methods didn't work. So we passed more laws, and hired many federal overseers, to do much more of what didn't work.
Schools. Once they were local. Then the federal government got into the act. Education of our children has gone steadily downhill since, as we have passed a steady stream of laws. So pass more laws; education will get even worse, as costs spiral ever upward.
Freedom and liberty. As the number of overseers goes up, these disappear. But there will never, and can never, be enough overseers to "protect" the slaves. Since the slaves are being taught that the goal of government is "safety", they cry out "give us more laws" "give us more overseers".
While slaves can't hope to have enough money to pay these overseers, one "gimmick" is lottery. An occasional slave can win that big lottery of getting more money or "service" from the government than they put in, and this encourages them to chant "more laws."
So I wish someone would explain it to me. How could anyone want one more law and one more Jack Booted Thug? When the examples have been countries like Stalin's USSR, Castro's Cuba, Hitler's Germany, not to mention Pol Pot's Cambodia?