The Canada we remembered and thought we lived in is over and it is never coming back.

No amount of talking to people at bars, starting your own political parties, forming secret militias to plan out rebellions you never act on will change anything.

What we're seeing happening is the natural conclusion of what happens when organized government has much more power than average citizens. I don't mean power as determined by law but I mean hard power as determined by men and technologies of war.

We actually began to see this shift during the industrial revolution as weapons of war become far more advanced and outside the reach of average people to acquire; however, it wasn't a large disparity until really the second industrial revolution and it has been ever increasing since then, not just in weapons but in communication (satellites), etc... with this new age giving the power of instant control and ideology shifting through the mechanisms of information dissemination (internet, social media, mainstream news etc...).

What we have no is an extreme imbalance in power between average citizens and governments. This always leads to one conclusion which is the continued path toward absolute control in everything.

You are here because you have Traditional Western Values from the 1800s era that have been passed down generation to generation. You believe in individualism, in liberalism (the classical kind) and have an inherent believe that less government is good. You are a dying breed and you will cease to exist soon enough. The government now has control over the culture and you can see it in each new generation who aligns more and more with the government's perspective.

The biggest problem you have is that you understand that the government is not using its power to benefit the people but rather is using its power to benefit itself. The people who accept what the government is doing do not understand how the government does not truly have their interest at heart. In this manner, these people who obey the government are your enemies but they ought not to be if only they understand the situation. They don't however, so you are forced to treat them as enemies and who wants to live in a country full of your enemies?

You are probably wondering, what can you do? There are only truly 3 solutions. You're probably not going to like any of them but they are the only real solutions.

1. Develop new military technology that is cheap, easy to construct, easy to use without training and can be made widely available that reduces the disparity between government and average people's power.

2. Develop some new technology or social structure that changes the way in which wealth is created by improving production so significantly that it changes the very makeup of society altogether. Examples of this in history would be the industrial revolution or using animals instead of human slaves.

3. Ride the Tiger of Modernity. Basically, accept that this is the way things are and you can't change them so don't even try. Just stick to what you believe is right and adapt to society so you can get along and be happy without constantly struggling to combat this situation. The metaphor is that the only place you're safe from a tiger is on its back. You can't control which way the tiger goes but because you've opted not to fight it but to ride it, you will come out unharmed even if you have no control over the direction it takes you.

There is technically a 4th option of get conquered by another civilization but that's maybe not optimal.