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The Ohio Drama

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In Ohio, Ramaswamy’s campaign put out a distasteful ad featuring the mother of Ramaswamy’s opponent, Amy Acton. When Acton was a child, her mother married a pedophile who raped her 12-year-old daughter repeatedly. Finally, the children were removed from the mother’s custody, and she made no efforts to get her children back. Instead, she remained married to the pedophile.

That Ramaswamy would lend credence to this horrible woman is immoral and wrong. What people are missing, however, is that the whole story is evidence that Acton should not be in politics or in any form of public life. I feel extreme compassion for her, and it is precisely because of that compassion that I understand how wrong this current path is for her.

I have no idea how it happens that Ohio ended up with two candidates who should have never run for office. It’s a great state. There are tons of people. How come it was so impossible to find two candidates who are all there and are capable of running?

16 responses to “The Ohio Drama”

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    Anonymous

    “It’s a great state,” in reference to Ohio is something only someone not raised in American culture and norms could ever come to the conclusion of. I am rare to have ever heard any sort of local pride for the armpit of the Midwest.

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      Clarissa

      This is true, and I find this attitude often among my students. They live here in an absolute paradise, yet they think that this is a horrible, backwards little place and all dream of going to New York or LA.

      One has got to be utterly insane to prefer these cities to, say, rural Ohio, but people don’t really get it. Their understanding of reality comes from screens. What it actually is like to walk by homeless encampments, or to be pushed around by drugged-out crazies in the streets of a big city, doesn’t enter into their calculations.

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        ShadowsCollide

        I myself live near New York City and a lot of people from other areas think it must be fun and glamorous to live near the city. The reality is that outside of Midtown Manhattan and Upper Manhattan, much of the city is either boring suburbia or frightening slums. Even midtown Manhattan has loads of junkies and homeless people that harass pedestrians, but the media still portrays the city as awesome.

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          Clarissa

          I was in Flushing two weeks ago, and it was very off-putting. The hotel I stayed at was amazing, very beautiful and modern, but the surrounding area was grim, mountains of garbage everywhere. I couldn’t even consider going to a restaurant because everything was in hieroglyphics. Homeless people stalking around. There were leaflets everywhere about a psycho that was persecuting young Asian girls in that area. Why would anybody want to be there instead of our bucolic, high-trust, safe, and beautiful area, where, if I see a cigarette butt on the sidewalk, that is shocking and unexpected?

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            ShadowsCollide

            It’s social media and watching too much TV, too many young people in the country and small towns think that living in the city is cool and awesome and their hometowns are boring and backwards.

            The worst are liberals from small towns who act as though the folks back home are scum and are embarrassed to come from so-called flyover country. They go out of their way to be obnoxiously progressive and talking crap about their hometowns, as though they escaped prison. It’s a shame, I wouldn’t mind living in a small town

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              Demotrash

              It’s interesting that “if you’re smart and interesting you need to ESCAPE your dead end small town” is such a repetitive theme in media that we take it for granted. Then we wonder why rural areas end up with a shortage of doctors and lawyers.

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              cliff arroyo

              “too many young people in the country and small towns think that living in the city is cool”

              I think it’s possible to point out a few culprits… I never watched How I met your mother when it was on but it’s on rerun around dinner time now and there is a _lot_ of NYCmaxxing going on. Much more than say Friends a few years earlier.

              The Devil wears Prada also had a major NYC is for winners! sub-text going on.

              Lots of things set in NYC use it as a setting without sending the ‘you’ve got to get here!’ message.

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                Clarissa

                After watching Sex and the City, I sincerely expected New York to be filled with beautifully dressed people. The first time I went there, I purposefully went to Fifth Avenue and walked around in search of beautifully dressed people. I found exactly zero.

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        Demotrash

        Ohio is a wonderful state. The Ohioans who move out likely bitch about it constantly, which might lead to outsiders thinking that’s how we all feel about the state. I don’t know anyone who would consider it “the armpit of the Midwest.” We are too busy looking down on neighboring states to look down on ourselves. That’s not to say we have zero negative feelings about it, but anonymous is simply wrong that we are united in self loathing and shame. I suspect this prison is from a metropolitan coastal area (or maybe our local Midwestern enemy, Michigan.)

        That said, a lot of areas of Ohio have major drug problems, so it’s not all idyllic. Rural America can be great but it can also be incredibly depressing; it depends where you’re at. That’s to say nothing of midsize cities like Middletown…(or major cities like my own; Ohio is not a particularly rural state.)

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      ShadowsCollide

      As someone from New Jersey, I have no opinion on Ohio or know much about it outside of Cleveland or Cincinnati, it’s a neutral place in my opinion. It can’t be that bad, it’s crazy how many people I know living in New Jersey who think the middle of the country is a giant black hole of nothing, they’ve been overseas but never further west than Philadelphia. Once one of my coworkers said she was moving to Missouri and other people thought she was moving to Mars, since Missouri might as well be in the middle of a black hole of nothing

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    Demotrash

    On the Democratic side, it’s simply difficult to find people to run. Tim Ryan would’ve been crushing it though. On the Republican side, we had a perfectly competent candidate in Dave Yost, and a number of other people who were considering a run. However, the state party chose to endorse several months before the primary, something out of touch with the norm here and, as it turns out, a very stupid idea. (It was already obvious by May that Vivek was going to have trouble in the general election.) Yost felt he couldn’t make it and immediately dropped out (in retrospect, he should’ve stuck it out, but I understand why he dropped.) Heads need to roll in the state party after November. It turns out “divisive primaries” may have served a good purpose after all!

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      Clarissa

      I’ve never seen a campaign so moronically and self-defeatingly run as Vivek’s. Not only is he completely stupid and out of touch with normal people, but he surrounded himself with equally stupid advisors and campaign managers. What will it take for him to quit politics? This is a guy with zero political instincts. He should go defraud more elderly people or something. I hear that that is something he’s actually good at.

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        Demotrash

        Yes. It’s one thing for Vivek to think this was a good idea (nobody would expect anything else from this guy), another for nobody in his campaign to tell him this would be a disaster for him. It’s baffling.

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    I think this is a very effective ad, quite devastating. Obviously it’s understood that the mother also is implying that Acton is lying about any childhood abuse as well, there is no record of any prosecution or conviction. Acton is hated in Ohio for her behavior during covid, she refuses to debate and is generally seen as a kook. Also I believe this was put out by a PAC not Ramaswamy. Whether it’s ethical or moral, i can’t say but it is very effective. I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

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      Clarissa

      That is very bizarre. The mother says that the lie her daughter told is that they were living in a tent, which is weird, given that the tent is nothing when compared to the accusations of rape. I feel compassion for Acton over that horrible mother.

      Of course, I don’t think anybody should vote for Acton or any Democrat.

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    cliff arroyo

    “Sex and the City”

    I’ve never seen more than two or three minutes of an episode but I think that was the beginning of the NYC as lifestyle trend.

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