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In any democracy there is a fairly obvious correlation between the growth of government bureaucracy and a trend towards de facto one party rule. This seems to be inevitable due to the huge size and vast complexity of modern bureaucracies allied to the fact that they long outlive most elected governments.
As bureaucracies grow, political parties become less relevant due to a pervasive bureaucratic inertia and its overriding need for consensus. Political life evolves into a stage show as the exercise of genuine power leaks away into the bureaucracy. Not necessarily a national bureaucracy of course.
We are almost bound to end up with a one party state in all but name because the supporting bureaucracy is effectively a one party state with one set of policies and one consensus on every mature issue. Consequently we see a slow migration from old notions of a political centre towards what used to be viewed as the political left where the state is all powerful and has its finger on every pulse.
Here in the UK things have changed to such a degree over recent decades that anyone wishing to vote for a mixed economy socialist party could comfortably support the Conservatives. Anyone with more centralised and even totalitarian tastes could with equal comfort support Labour. One could easily argue that our two major parties are trending towards socialist and communist even though our political language does not reflect that. Such an argument may struggle against ingrained terminology but it could be made and sustained. However neither party is interested in language which keeps pace with political reality.
The problem of what we call such trends is acute because the old left/right mythology is hardly adequate to handle a situation which is all left and no right even though virtually all the major actors still strive to keep the old language intact. Reassuring for some I suppose, but not particularly accurate in these altered and rapidly ossifying times.
