blahflowers

I think the "move to Canada" thing is primarily a reference, yes? I mean, even if people do not know that they are referencing it, it's a riff on people moving to Canada and the UK to avoid the draft for Vietnam... so, possibility and risk of an actual draft notwithstanding, "Canada" is standing in as "a place where we can be safe". It's an undserstandable reaction, I think, and as a coping mechanism planning one's departure might well have been both distracting and soothing, but as for how many people are actually going to head North... I don't know. Not too many, I suspect. I think the meme will fade once it becomes clear that there *is* no "place where we can be safe" - only at best defensible positions. I think (hope) that the flight response is just a way to cope with a bad thing until people feel more able to confront it. Reagan, after all, had bigger victories in the 80s and people largely stuck it out...