Here's something that will give you confidence about 2016. American citizens prefer Voldemort to the group of Republican candidates.
That's right, He Who Must Not Be Named, what with his murdering and Horcrux-building, is more popular than Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum and their ilk. And just how do we know that? Because somebody ran a poll on it, naturally.
The Washington Post noticed that morale over next year's crop of candidates has been particularly low, so they decided to get their hands dirty and do some investigating. The paper compared the latest Washington Post/ABC and Quinnipiac polls that measured candidate favorability with their own Internet survey on famous Hollywood villains (the Terminator, Darth Vader, the shark from Jaws and Voldemort). What they found won't surprise you at all.
For starters, the results were pretty dismal. Every presidential candidate received a negative approval rating, with the exception of Bernie Sanders—and his less-than-10% score is nothing to write home about. Donald Trump came in dead last, with Chris Christie following closely behind. Hilariously enough, Darth Vader, the Terminator and the shark all received positive scores, meaning they blew the politicians out of the water.
Voldemort's popularity isn't as high as the other three villains, but Americans still saw him as a better alternative than Trump, Christie, Huckabee and Santorum, as well as their rivals Ted Cruz and George Bush. That means that Americans actually favor the guy who killed Fred Weasley over most of the people who could end up being President.
We don't know about you, but a move to Canada is looking real nice right now.