I cannot begin to understand how there are so many people asking for "more state" when you see what too much state leads too. It first invariably leads to default. Then to a more authoritarian regime. Then a planned economy and from there it's the infernal spiral down to mediocrity and tyranny.
But of course people asking for more state will tell you that North Korea is not a good example of communism and that Argentina is not a good example of socialism.
How convenient.
The answer to our problems is not more state, but less.