Predicting NC's Future

Via our boy Dr. Jim Booth: BuzzFeed last week presented “11 Things The North Carolina Legislature Gave Us This Session.” The list isn’t pretty. It includes:

Moral Mondays
Harsh abortion restrictions hidden in a motorcycle bill
The most restrictive Voter ID laws in the country
The decimation of public education as North Carolinians know it
The assumption that all those on government assistance are drug addicts
The expansion of where you can carry your concealed weapon
The repeal of the Racial Justice Act
The end of federal unemployment benefits
A ban on Sharia Law (because if there’s anything that plagues The Old North State these days, it’s Sharia Law running amok)

And of course,

Turning the state into a national laughingstock

I don’t know how exactly to describe my feelings about what’s happened to my native state. Heartbreak at the neo-feudal paradise a once-vibrant place is becoming. Terror at what this means for my family and friends who are still there. Transcendent white-hot rage at the corrupt oligarchs who financed the coup. All that and then some.