Spineless, unprincipled, constantly making excuses about why they're not doing anything, unwilling to do literally fucking ANYTHING to help the people they say they represent.
What are the underlying material conditions driving this?
Here in BC, Canada, the "social democratic" NDP government recently got a majority government, which means they can do literally anything they want. Pass any legislation they want. Pass any laws, any taxes, literally whatever the fuck they want.
And what have they done? FUCK ALL. Nothing. Not a single piece of legislation that I can think of. They're taking as long as they possibly can to implement $15 minimum wage, no paid sick days, no card check legislation, fucking NOTHING. Instead of using the pandemic as the obvious reason to pass this legislation they are hiding behind it as their excuse to avoid doing literally anything useful.
This seems to be the case all over the Western world.
WHY?
They always have been
They preach a revisionist role on the state: that the working class can control the State by electing a majority in parliament
This denial of the Marxian understanding that the State is an instrument of class rule to oppress one class over another is at the root of social-democracy being the "enemy within"
There is no depth to which Social Democrats wont sink. There is no firm "bottom" where they will stop. Hungary was a fascist nation for 12 years prior to ww2 which was only more influenced by Nazism as time went on
The Social-democratic party there completely capitulated to Horthy fascism and wasnt even banned during this period. Writing pro government periodicals and the like