Used to be people "voted with their feet" by moving to America

"No. No pity.They can either vote with their feet, or stop being sheep."

I get the schaedenfreud (sp?) but...

Used to be people "voted with their feet" by moving to America. Now we're moving selectively within America. I know my family did. But...

When you have nowhere left to run, maybe then you'll take sympathetic pity on your fellows trapped behind enemy lines.