"How about we start organizing a secessionist movement, and all the Northeast, Upper Midwest and West Coast blue states join with Canada, and leave the southerners and westerners behind to watch NASCAR, and live according to their Good White Male God Fearing Values?" Guest/2:18

That's more along the lines that I have been thinking. I wish. Or just heading into the Alaska bush and removing myself from any knowledge of or complicity in what the blasted country does for the next few years.

Canada does indeed have its own problems. One of the drawbacks that I am aware of is that Canada is not yet as far along as the US is about many environmental issues. I'm talking specifically about farmed salmon - it ain't healthy, folks- and it's having a bad impact on the wild stock - and about sewage treatment in many communities, including some large ones.