Move to Canada If Trump Wins

 I have read a number of complaints from folks who say they will move to Canada if Trump wins.  

   My husband advises that this is an age-old threat from angry people who have disliked the U.S. social and political climate throughout history.  He says that hardly anybody ever follows through.  

  Personally, I am sick and tired of all the whining and complaining about Trump.  People need to grow up and look at life from a more detached perspective.

   Let's start with an historical approach: 

    Abraham Lincoln was elected with less than 40% of the popular vote.  I mentioned that at the beauty shop last week when I was getting my hair cut. Another customer (one of those folks who claims to be a Republican but swears she won't vote for Trump) commented that Lincoln was unpopular because the country was so divided back during Lincoln's time. 

   "Well, duhh -- and you think the country is not divided now?" (I didn't say that, but I thought it).

   One of my personal favorites among historical analogies is comparisons of Trump to Teddy Roosevelt.  Most people like to remember Teddy Roosevelt for giving us the National Parks.  He was also the father of "the bully pulpit".  Old Teddy didn't just run around shouting "bully".  He was a bully.  Some of his angry outpourings led to the Spanish American War.

  Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower and Harry Truman were  among several former Presidents who favored deportation of illegals which is one of the chief complaints about possible outcomes of a Trump Presidency.   

   The open borders policy of our current President has increased the welfare rolls, degraded schools, made a mockery of law enforcement and brought terrorists and several contagious diseases into the country.  All of this adds to the multi-trillion-dollar debt that we are never going to be able to pay.  Right now countries like China and Saudi Arabia own huge amounts of our promissory notes (that's loan repayment promises for those of you who don't understand basic economics).  These countries to which we owe billions and trillions of dollars can control us and dictate how we do business with them and others.  

   Donald Trump is a bit of an arrogant, self-centered asshole as far as I am concerned.  But he is a lot better than anything the Democrats have to offer at this point.  I am willing to take a chance on him in the hope that he can continue to destroy the doctrine of political correctness which is strangling free speech. I also applaud the way he seems to control the liberally-biased, gossip-mongering media, as opposed to the media controlling him, which has been the case with most politicians for the past 70 years or more.  

   But, hey, if you dislike Trump so much -- go ahead and vote for Hillary who has given classified information to our enemies via her private email server, sold out to the hateful rich investment bankers,  destroyed the reputations of her husband's rape victims and -- along with President Obama who was trying to protect the myth of peace in the Middle East for the sake of his reelection bid -- murdered our ambassador and several members of the embassy staff in Benghazi and then lied about it, and is still lying about it.

   If you don't like Hillary and you don't like Trump, you can waste your vote on some little-known Libertarian crackpot who is sure to be on the ballot.  You can also waste your vote by writing in somebody who won't get elected.  You can stay home and not vote at all, which, according to most pundits would essentially help Hillary gain the White House.  

   Or you can make good on the threat to move to Canada.  Below are links to articles and web sites which provide helpful information in that regard. 

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/02/how-to-move-to-canada-trending-after-trump-win.html

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/10/maple-match-dating-service-americans-canada-trump

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/move-to-canada-if-trump-becomes-president_us_56d7148ce4b0bf0dab34136f