Governments cannot be compassionate. They can and do, however, take charge of people’s lives and tell them how to live.
This is the equivalent of a psychologically enmeshed system, a codependent system, wherein one set of people generates their sense of purpose by first making it impossible for people to thrive, and then “rescuing” them. To meet the needs of the State though, which is to say those people whose unmet emotional needs propelled them to power, this “rescue” must be on-going. No policy can be considered which completes this rescue.
I am left to wonder what unmet need exists in most psychotherapists which would enable them to nurture these delusions. I think it is safe to say most of them are codependent too. Providing therapy enables them to thrive, relatively, on the misery of others, provided their own defenses protect them from realizing the profound importance of this power dynamic in the maintenance of stability within their own psyches.