Doing Time In Ohio

I lived there. Twice. I know from Ohio. What I now believe to be true is that: "As Ohio goes, no longer goes the nation." It was Ronald Reagan who brought us "The Silent Majority," code for irrelevant, uninformed, uninspired, and ambivalent Americans, who felt collectively unworthy of deciding who their elected officials might be. Apathy that was as much assigned as endemic. A learned state of compliance.

But while Ohio wasn't looking, America has become a very diverse, intelligent and pro-active country. It's now occupied by millions of free-thinking individuals who can no longer be grouped by monolithic notions of race, ethnicity, gender or coffee preference.

Mark Penn, chief strategist of the Clinton campaign, and author of the book, Microtrends, understands that macro phenomena are the aggregate of small "cells" of change. As in: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. But something happened on the way to the Ohio and the Texas "primacaucus." He forgot what he knew. He was so busy inspiring fear and looking for dirty laundry, that the Obama campaign, diligently working across the country, town by town, precinct by precinct, caucus by caucus, state by state, beat him at his own game. They complemented Obama's visionary rhetoric = not mere words - with real organization at the micro level, and kept on amassing delegates... enough to soon put them in a decisive and an undeniable lead.

Mark Twain uttered words of political punditry when he said: " If the world ever comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati - because they won't know about it for 20 years."

Comments

[NuttyProf]

gotta love Mark Twain

[Countess]

Please don't disparage Ohio just because they voted twice for Geore W. Bush and once for Hillary Clinton. She scared the shit out of them and fooled them just like her mentor George W. Bush.