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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?

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    “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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        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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          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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      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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