If McCrazy wins, I am moving to Canada

[Taverner]

Don't bash me either - you guys will need a safehouse for the second "Underground Railroad" somewhere along the border.

[Orsino]

1. I'm moving to Canada either way.

A McCain "victory" will merely add urgency.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Alas, the only way I could move overseas at this point

is by either becoming independently wealthy or marrying a foreigner.

If you're over 40, you will have a hell of a hard time getting into any developed country. Poor Third World places will take you, but not any place that would actually be an improvement over the U.S.

I'm not saying that I disagree with your intent: I've been alienated from American culture most of my life. I have no interest in "fighting" for a country where so many people actually take Rush Limbaugh and Fox News seriously.

But if you're going to leave, do it while you're still young.

[Taverner]

3. I'm under 40, a professional with a masters and a tech skill in demand

On their point system I score high

They want "my kind"

[hunter]

4. I figure the country will fall apart so completely...

...that the parts even remotely functional will be annexed by Canada or Mexico. My neighborhood of California will be Mexican, but the Canadian border will be a short drive away and friendly too, so I'll be able to visit Canadian San Francisco anytime I want to.

The McCrazy states will be sucked into a bickering black hole of right wing war game fantasies, and the Palin government will resemble that of North Korea. This disfunctional nation will survive by selling scrap metal and demanding petty appeasements in return for not blowing itself to bits or poisoning the atmosphere trying to get high tech weapons to work without competent scientists or engineers.

Angels do not keep airplanes flying, prayer does not guide rockets, and God does not bless those who play with plutonium.

[Taverner]

5. I had this idea for a book

Republicans bankrupt the US, and it dissolves (much like the USSR did)

Republic of California, Republic of Texas and the Confederacy all become seperate countries. Texas and California go to war, of course, with the Confederacy playing Austria to Texas' Nazi Germany.

[KamaAina]

8. Heinlein's "Friday" takes place in a similar setting

minus the partisanship. The California Confederacy is (nominally) led by one John "Warwhoop" Tumbril, but each and every decision is made by direct popular vote (this was written before the "Total Recall"). The Chicago Imperium is full-on fascist, while the Atlantic Union, the closest thing to the USA we know, is reduced to roughly the original thirteen.

And the only spot on the continent with a hard currency backed by gold? Why, Vegas Free State, of course. :-)

[pnutbutr]

6. Don't forget

to write and tell us all aboot it ay.

[Taverner]

7. Not just that, but if you guys need smuggling out I'll be there to help

Remember the first scene in Handmaids Tale....

[tigereye]

9. Palin makes me think of the Handmaid's Tale...

:scared: For me moving to SF might be the way to go, other than the cost of it!


However, some Canadians seem to have bought some of that conservative crap, though. It's not that they don't have any fundies or RWers up there.

[Taverner]

10. Yep, especially in rural Northern Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan

And all those nutcases following Joel's Army

Maybe we won't have to travel all the way to Iraq for a holy war!!!