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I'm thinking that [livejournal.com profile] zenith and [livejournal.com profile] 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?

Re: Tempting....

Date: 2004-11-05 02:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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....

Date: 2004-11-05 06:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

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