Just have to say this...

I am actually strangely reassured by the current storm affecting the U.S.

An American colleague of mine was asking about the Canadian perspective on your current travails, about a year and a half ago. I told him that America has faced far worse and survived, usually coming out a better place in the end. The population is, overall, well educated, and by a good margin Americans are well intentioned people who try to do the right thing. I said that he lived in a robust society, so as painful as it all might be, I said I was optimistic.

We might be wincing a bit, watching as we do from our lawn chairs on our side of the Niagara River, but do I think America will be an even better place for all of this.

And it could be far worse: you could live in the UK.