From June of 2017, this Tweet has aged like a fine wine: He eventually fires everyone. Just him, alone, on Twitter, in the WH. And the person that brings him his soda, that person never gets fired. https://t.co/eVISOqQw5i — Joe Gregorio (@bitworking) June 6, 2017

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You know what my favorite non-sound from the mid-term elections is? Paul Ryan slithering silently into political obscurity.

The rural areas of North Carolina are emptying out. .tooltip { position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 28px; pointer-events: none; } text { font-size: 15px; } North Carolina County Population vs Count Population Growth Rate (2010 - 2014).Click on the graph to toggle between population density and county population. North Carolina is not immune to Rural Flight, nor is it a special victim, as the phenomenon is happening world wide.

As we head into the fourth week of Pat McCrory's failure to conceeed in the NC gubernatorial race, it's important to look at McCrory's infantile behavior in a larger context. While it would be tempting to try to psychoanalyze his continued intransigence as yet another man-child temper tantrum, there are larger forces at work, of which McCrory is just one sad symptom. The root of the problem stems from the ever widening wealth gap and subsequent elite overproduction.

You might think that as the U.S. moves from an industrial and manufacturing based economy to a knowledge based economy that we surely have weathered similar tranistions. For example, as we moved from an agricultural economy to a manufacturing based one. While we did indeed weather the same changes, the vital difference is the timescale over which those changes took place. As you can see from this data on agricultural employment, we did experience a loss of 6 million agricultural jobs over a 50 year period from 1910 to 1960.

To get an idea of voter suppression in action let's overlap the The Racial Dot Map with Wake County's early voting locations.

Building on The Republican race: Five degrees of climate denial, extended to the full seven stages: Stage 1: Denial Pre 2010 - The climate is not changing. Stage 2: Ignorance 2010 - The climate might be changing, or it might not, we just don't know. Stage 3: GAIA Bashing 2014 - Climate change is real, but it’s natural. Stage 4: We so tiny 2016 - Climate change is real, but humans aren't the primary cause.