The Welfare State

Average millennial looking at the picture: "Who are these people to the left of Trudeau?"

They don't think they were important because that is what they have been taught in school.Schools in Ontario teach that Canada only started when PET was elected.

as I have said time after time there are no conservatives in Canada.

Canada once had a conservative approach to government debt prior to PET.
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/blogs/a-really-quick-history-of-canada-s-federal-debt

To be fair to Harper who's accused of the highest per capita spending he did have the 2008 crash fall into his lap. I think there should be another graph of the G20 nations spending over the years following the crash to put that in perspective as well as recognition for decreasing spending and re-balancing the budget after 2008.

JT's spending graph shows zero desire for controlling spending looking like a well paved road to hell in year 150.

Thanks to the media and the educational system for that.

What Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3qkf3bajd4

Also those Harper stickers on the stop signs. What was that about?! Stop Harper from doing what?!

Re: the Harper defence vis-a-vis the Great Recession.

I guess we are all Keynesians now eh?!
Boost spending during slow downs, and make corresponding and proportionate reductions during expansions. Clearly, as with communism, there's nothing wrong with Keynesianism; it's just that we've never had the right people running it.

Interesting the ratcheting down after WW1 that didn't happen after WW2.
That is the central theme of a seminal book by Robert Higgs: Crisis and Leviathan.
An eternal up ratcheting.

As Hans Hermann Hoppe put it in a book title: Democracy: The God That Failed.

The graph clearly shows that Trudeau was the most successful leviathan grower while Conservatives that followed maintained the leviathan state. His Spawn is now growing the monster once again. With more people now retiring than entering the workforce, the certainty of bankruptcy might actually become apparent to the bovine masses despite the best efforts of the walking dead of the media and academia.

A similar graph of the Bush (GOPe) presidency and the Obama (great moments in socialism) presidency ... would be a hockey stick ... right up every American's sphincter !

So any suggestions?
Is there a peaceful way to "reform" Kleptocracy?

The graph is... very graphic.
Other peoples money...what fools and bandits lust for.
Power over a declining civilization is number one priority.

Stopping the decline?
They would have to recognize this state first.

In the world of social parasites and bloated bureaucracies everything is wonderful and will continue that way...
Money comes from the government and taxes are a blessing imposed on the "little people" who must have the help of their intellectual superiors.

Personally I am moving away from the French Haircut idea, more leaning toward rusty nails and rabid raccoons.

Democracy: a political system that encourages adults to vote like kids in a candy store.