I wrote my MP to ask that we consider a nuclear weapons program.
http://brander.ca/blog/nukes_please.html
...friends and chance encounter people (dentist, etc) are guarded but basically supportive "gotta look at it, at least".
It's the journalists and social media bloggers who write back as if I've gone nuts.
Mind you, that was yesterday, before the Ukrainian concessions, and the direct 51st-state message repeated.
Maybe today I'm not quite so ahead of the wave.