If the Atlantic is to be believed (it’s not), then this video is prophetic (it isn’t.) Could an economy really be based on Lebron James? 

Back to Ohio. The unemployment rate is well above the national average, nearly 11 percent. The state’s manufacturing base has been decimated, and those jobs aren’t coming back. And now, suddenly, the biggest star in the state — an economic engine in his own right, and a guy who probably single-handedly made Cleveland a recognizable sports mecca all over the world — has forsaken its residents. And not just forsaken them, but utterly humiliated them by forsaking them on a globally televised ESPN Special!

And that drives them into the arms of the Tea Party and the 9/12 folks. You know, that’s how these things work, because 400,000 people in a majority-minority community are all ready and raring to join people whose racial tolerance level still only says “coloreds” when their kids are around.