If Donald Trump wins, move to Cape Breton.

There's even a whole website about this, though not one officially affiliated with the local government.

This is something that happens in every election cycle.

Politics is invariably polarizing. Strong candidates have an uncanny ability to strike tremendous hope in their supporters and incredible fear in their detractors, and it's commonplace for people to threaten strong responses if someone they don't like is elected.

Johnny Depp famously threatened to move overseas if George W. Bush won the election.

Bush won. Depp left.

With this year's election we're sure to see much more of this, as emotions are already boiling.

There are so many people right now amazed that they lived to see the day when a card-carrying socialist is a leading contender to become President of the United States.

Of course, it's not about any single person.

As Douglas Adams wrote in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (from which this headline also comes), "anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."