They didn t have to elect reform-minded Mike Harris, but they did. From Margaret Thatcher s Britain, to Ronald Reagan s America, to the ending of the USSR, to the defeat of the Charlottetown Accord, to the stunning gains by the Reform Party in the last federal election, to Ralph s Revolution in Alberta, to the startling success of Republicans in the 1994 US elections, and now in Ontario freedom and free markets are winning. A movement toward lower taxes, freer markets and smaller government is a movement toward capitalism.
Capitalism has lowest taxes, freest markets and smallest government.
They thought the welfare state was permanent. This is not victory, but it is a breakthrough, and victories are won by exploiting breakthroughs. The welfare state s retreat can be made into a rout. The danger now is timidity. Your generals aren t used to winning, and may waste your gains by failing to exploit the statists bewilderment.