As title. Ohio is a bleak, futureless shithole in a fascist empire that treats it like a frack-water dumping ground. Healthcare access is terrible, higher education has collapsed, industry has long fled. Christians and Fascists dominate basically every lever of power. Despite best efforts, I haven’t been able to leave, won’t be an option in the foreseeable future. Why should I bother getting up tomorrow?
Are you near Kent? Folks helping folks is what gets me up in the morning. But some days are easier than others.
I’m within an hour of Kent. I used to be a humanist too but watching people in the rustbelt’s obsession with caging children (and everyone else) kinda cured me of that. I pretty much just don’t want to have anything to do with this culture anymore, all there is here is a bunch of falling, corpo gutted cities and walmart towns (and prisons!). Don’t get me wrong, I like the culture in the cities, but the cities are ultimately at the mercy of fascists and the failed, gutted industries. Ohio would be a better place if the mass exodus continues unabated and we gave the land back.
That’s pretty much all of the USA not just Ohio.