Social Democratic welfare States, I argue, are more suspect to a homogeneous political climate. The nature of any government bureaucracy is to reinforce its own importance and expansion. For instance, if you sit at the top of a health department and a new flu is out, even if it's not really harmful to the public as a whole, you'll want to take some--any measure against it to appear like you're being effective. That way you'll receive more funding from politicians.

With an ever-growing welfare apparatus, political parties will have to dedicate more and more of their energy toward maintaining and managing it, meaning a big part of their political agenda will revolve around tax rates and government policies. So even if you're a Conservative and don't trust governments too much, you'll inherit a system that needs to be managed anyway. The chance of reducing or even removing a department or institute that already exists is minimal, and voters will feel less safe if you suddenly announce that a health department or a job center must go, since they are essentially seen as platforms of safety.

Once a society becomes Social Democratic or any socialist democratic variant thereof, it will therefore effectively homogenize its political arena and limit it to a liberal-leftist battlefield where small government changes become hot topics during elections. If you look at America right now, you have one major party that wants to reform but keep an old health care system, while another big party in power wants to reform and change the current system. In Sweden the health care discussion exclusively revolves around what the tax rates should be, not about any change to the system itself.

In Social Democratic societies the political alternatives meet in the Center and orient themselves around leftism, because Conservatism transforms into welfare-friendly liberalism, which sometimes shares similar goals with Conservatism, but wants to implement them through a bureaucracy. We see a similar development in America where an increased influence from bureaucracies after the Iraq War and the government take-overs of companies in crisis has led to a more homogeneous political climate around foreign policy and the economy.

Welfare democracy, put simply, is a dead end and will eventually force the West to commit suicide.