“They are trying to break us and make us more pliable!”
Ohioans are extremely pliable. I have yet to hear someone complain about Obamacare. It just doesn’t enter conversation on the street. And if it’s brought up by a rabble rouser, the consensus seems to be: “Yeah, Obamacare sucks, but something had to be done.”
The union mentality is strong... and unbelievably dated. They are some of the most ignorant knuckleheads you ever met. They vote the straight Liberal ticket and couldn't tell you WHY if their lives depended on it!
I know...I have some relatives who don't know anything but they know Big Labor BS.
It's funny too, because they are routinely screwed by their unions and marched in lock step to vote for “O”.
What's even more scary, 100% of them are howling racist bigots... so much so that they embarrass me with their language and remarks.
I'm amazed (and this is compared to MA, for heaven's sake) how much they want the government to do everything for them. They'll vote for extra taxes for the library, zoo, and community college etc, rather than pay their own way. Cleveland sets up a stupid scheme to close the major link from the west for two weeks for a movie, the people complain like crazy, but don't really do anything.
The racism? Everyone isn't racist. But it does cut all ways where it exists. And Obamacare? It's in the Ohio DNA to think that if a problem is going to be solved, the government will solve it. JMHO
The other thing I hear from my liberal family is that they think nothing has changed from Bush to Obama. Obama is tough on the terrorists, he kept Gitmo open, he's fixed healthcare (they do believe that) and taxes on the rich is the right thing to do. These "scandals" are meaningless and are strictly political attacks. The much ado about nothing on Benghazi is because we're afraid of losing to Hilary in 2016, so we're trying to destroy her.
The problem is, this is the mindset. The pansy RINOs we call republicans have to go. We need candidates which will tell it like it is...ala Ted Cruz.