Psychology Says No One is Going Anywhere

“… In a matter of weeks Republicans who promised to decamp to Canada if Barack Obama won a second term will go back to living the same lives in the same country they inhabited before the calamity of a Democratic victory in the 2012 Presidential election.” — The Atlantic on why people threaten — and maybe even believe — that they’ll move to Canada or Costa Rica or whatever country if their candidate loses, and why they won’t.

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