Your own, personal Jesus, someone who hears your prayers, someone who cares...

[blahflowers]

I'm thinking that zenith and janinazew's 'Airlift America' is a sensible and humane idea. Ideally though I'd like to carve the country into two so that all the sensible people can have their own country and all the fascists can be left to rot in their own. Listening to The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy we have a race that is violently xenophobic towards all other life everywhere, so they get locked in a slow time bubble so they last until everyone else is gone and then can live happily ever after. We need that for the parts of America that voted for Bush. That way they won't bother us, won't consume our resources while trying to kill us, and will live to see doomsday.

But, while Bush winning obviously makes you sad, are you at risk of being SAD this Winter?

Comments

Re: Tempting....

[von-doom.livejournal.com]

I'm still figuring out what this means:

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Re: Tempting....

[mrs-munt.livejournal.com]

It's a much better picture, is what it is. The LA Times has a great one, too --I'd put it up, but it's sort of enormous. I'm starting to find the state-by-state map somewhat annoying, and also the assumption that Canada is all blue. When people talk about moving to Canada, they're just talking --right? I don't mean that I think that they're seriously considering packing their bags. I mean that they don't seriously think that this makes sense at all. It just seems really important to me to not leave right now --not just physically, but also not to retreat into fantasy. I mean, I am adjusting for irony & I'm not personally offended by anything that's been posted. But you know, can I get a witness?

Re: Tempting....

[spyinthehaus.livejournal.com]

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...

Re: Tempting....

[mrs-munt.livejournal.com]

Not too many, I suspect.

Right, that part I've got.

Tell me this. This is a phenomenon where the structure I + am + moving + to + Canada does not for the most part represent the sense "I am moving to Canada," or "I believe that moving to Canada is a moral option," but more likely means a host of other things that don't have much to do with "moving" or "Canada," and may even mean "I am not moving to Canada." Because that would make me feel better.