Because, for collectivists, the answer to any problem created by statism is more statism. As we’ve seen, collectivism holds that the alleged “rights” of the group trump individual rights, so the collectivist mindset fosters ever-expanding encroachments on individual rights. As a welfare statist country becomes more autocratic and slides toward authoritarianism and eventually totalitarianism, its inhabitants grow ever less free and less prosperous.
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right 