What is wrong with Ohio?????
I keep hearing how the race is tied. TIED?? are you people off your rockers? You really think Trump is a viable candidate? I grew up in Ohio when they had common sense. As Frump would say "SAD"
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This was a supposedly to be a real possibility to switch the seat, but nothing. The Democrat at the state level, is Sherrod Brown. Even he has not been out there for Strickland.
Yeah, the Koch brothers have bombed the shit out of the Strickland campaign, but there has been no response. Just like the 2014 statewide elections here.
BTW, I have been back in Ohio for the last three years and have seen what is happening.
...off our rockers ? I don't know - maybe a little misguided and soft in the melon.
Seriously, I think there's a lot of anger in rural Ohio among folks that used to have manufacturing sector jobs that have left town, Trump's message "I will bring them back!!!" resonates with these folks even though the likelihood he could do it is virtually, if not absolutely, zero. They desperately want to believe someone, anyone will "make their life great again"...this MAGA slogan speaks directly to them. They're f'ing nuts. Add to that a strong anti-choice movement and strong second amendment crowd and you've got a pretty big group of people with specific agendas that, in their minds, outweigh his misogynistic, incompetent history.
I used to live down near Lake Texoma between Texas and Oklahoma. Big dam along the Red River that they'd open up a couple times a year for drainage and flood control. I never say it but people said the right conditions created a pretty healthy whirlpool in the lake where the bypass was. Crazies would go out there in their motorboats to fish in that whirlpool. Insane. Every 2-3 years someone would screw up and get sucked into the intake. Why take the chance ??? Because the fish in that whirlpool were so desperate to get out, the story goes, they'd grab line without a hook to get out.
I don't know if that's a true story but I think there are a lot of ohio voters who are, sadly, so desperate they'd grab line without a hook to get out...and Donald has said all the right things to convince him he's their savior.
f'ed up I know but that's the feeling in a lot of rural waffle houses in Ohio,
My guess is that when you grew up here, there was still a vibrant manufacturing sector. Less so today and that may be the change that has sent these folks off their rockers.
As a recovering engineer myself and the father of three engineers (all HRC Dems by the way), I can see I'm going to have to stand up and defend the ranks of smart engineers. lol
That said, I agree there's a certain alternate reality to their lives. But your last paragraph applies to a lot more than engineers.
I've been blessed in my life, haven't gotten screwed and had great pay and bennies. But I grew up knowing that we have to care for the common good and that has, in my lifetime, typically been a democratic (or liberal) ideal. I also grew up knowing that we aren't going to get to the future wishing we were in the past and that has, in my lifetime, typically been a republican (or conservative) ideal.
I probably live in that same alternate reality you saw this morning among those so called smart engineers. But I know Dems are going to ask me to give back and I'll gladly sign up for that.
So...my request of you...don't confuse smart engineers with assholes. They're not married to their alternate reality because they're engineers...it's just cuz their asshole.
Being smart doesn't give you immunity to being an ass. Couldn't resist.
Have a good one.
