Mitchland's Law

From Slate's culture blog, we have a post about Canadians threatening to move to the US.  The reason for the blog was a number of Tweets after the US Supreme Court ruling on ACA, where the Tweeters threatened to move to Canada (which already has universal health coverage).

At one point shortly after the announcement, about 13,000 tweets were sent in a minute. Responses ranged from delight to rage. As BuzzFeed noted, seventeen people tweeted that the Supreme Court’s decision was driving them to Canada—a country with a publicly funded health care system.

Of course, these tweets were meant as jokes—the joke being that it’s not unusual for Americans to threaten to move to Canada when an election or a political decision doesn’t go their way. The day after George W. Bush won reelection the CBC reported that the number of hits from Americans visiting the Canadian government’s immigration website increased six-fold; “Threatening to Move to Canada” is number 75 on the list of Stuff White People Like.

I jumped on it because we may be developing our own version of Godwin's Law.  I would like to call it "Mitchland's Law".♠

As a blog comments section grows longer, the probability of a call to move to another country approaches 1.

Or so it seems.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  Named after my two good friends, Jack Mitchell and Neal Crossland.  The good news is that one lives in New Hampshire and the other lives in Massachusetts.