The people instinctively did not like the strengthening of the power of the state, and the right managed to play on this. Under the banner of limiting taxes and state power, Ronald Reagan won in America, and Margaret Thatcher won in England. After this, it turned out that the right wants to limit taxes by reducing the useful functions of the state. Under Reagan, spending on education fell, but fantastic sums were funneled into the military-industrial complex to create a space weapons system. So, the Social Democrats contributed to the strengthening of the state, and the right used the new power of the apparatus for traditional ideas: maintaining 'law and order' and developing the military-industrial complex. Twice in recent decades, the two leading political trends in the West have led voters: first the social democrats, who alleviated the situation of the poor through the hands of the state and gave power to the bureaucracy, and then the right, which cut everything except military and police spending and inflated it to infinity.