Reply #10: Whoa dude, sounds like maybe you should go back to Portland. Why

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live somewhere that makes you so crazy?

You indicated that you are a professor. Start a movement to try to educate Ohio voters. Take it from one who lives in the land of the walking brain-dead (Nebraska), that's what is needed not only in Ohio, but in every state of the Union. People have gotten so damn lazy that they get upset with the idea that the are expected to think. They want all their info handed to them by Fox, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC. They don't want to have to exert the effort necessary to obtain information, they want it spoon fed to them. And if it's not exactly the truth, who cares. At least they didn't have to work for it.

You have experience in presenting information and intelligence to your students. Make it exciting, interesting, meaningful. Then tell us how we can do the same thing. We all need to get involved. But this place intimidates me, it's so e-i-e-i-o. I was born here, but I will never understand this mentality.

Moving from a progressive area like the Northwest to the Midwest has to be a major culture shock.