It has little interest in what the citizens can do for themselves. The scope of the all-caring state widens as the citizenry become more helpless and lethargic. This state is not interested in a system of ordered liberty wherein citizens solve their own personal problems on their own initiatives and with their own institutions. The principle of subsidiarity is neglected because responsibility is not left at the lowest possible level. Problems are solved from the top down because the greater the perceived problem, the greater ethical scope given the state.
Every local problem is a national problem, a humanitarian problem.
The state deals with a general populace who have lost their initiative to solve their own problems. The state thus appears as an angel of mercy. Everyone is a victim. No one is responsible for his own disorders. Personal disorders are not cured by personal reform but by political regulation of consequences.