By KAYLA DEMICCO
Opinion Editor
The primaries have passed and now voters and politicians are preparing for the general election on Tuesday, Nov. 6. The general election in November is more important than any other November election in the past.
This November marks the midterm election where very big decisions will be made based upon the results of the voters’ choice.
“Democracy continues with or without you. Folks who are voting know the impact,” said Michelle Obama.
To encourage more people to go out and vote in the general election, making her first public appearance since the end of Barack Obama’s presidency, former First Lady, Michelle Obama held a campaign-styled rally on Sept. 23 in Nevada. This rally was sponsored by a nonprofit organization called “When We All Vote” to in celebrate the 53rd anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
When speaking to the crowd, she spoke of how she was tired of all of the “chaos and nastiness” in today’s politics.
“It’s exhausting and frankly depressing. I understand trying to shut it all out go on and just try to live your life. Take care of your family in peace,” Obama confessed.
In her speech, she assured listeners that their votes do count for something and that voting really is a big deal by saying, “Not voting is like letting your grandma pick your clothes out.”
Obama’s comparison between the two situation could not be more accurate. If you are a relatively young person who knows what all the latest trends are, you would not want your old grandmother to pick out your clothes.
It’s not guaranteed that your grandma would know what the current times are like and might be stuck in the mindset of when she was young.
To add her own bias in her speech she said, “We get the leaders we vote for, we get the policies we vote for, and when we don’t vote, that’s when we wind up with government of, by and for other people.”
Because you can’t vote some of the time and then sit out. You know we saw that happen. We experienced that. We had a great president.”
In response to Michelle saying that “we had a great president” (in reference to her husband), Fox Nation host, Tomi Lahren called her out for it.
Lahren went on a useless rant on Twitter to express her disliking for Obama’s statement by saying, “Michelle Obama said we ‘had’ a great president. By what measure? Not in economic growth. Not in border enforcement. Not in strength on the world stage. Sit down, Michelle.”
“By what measure was her husband a better president than the current president? Because not in economic growth, not in border security and enforcement, not in diplomatic relations, not in making the United States … strong on the international and national stage,” Lahren added.
To defend Trump, she said, “to all you loudmouth leftist men, just remember your words when someone comes out of the woodwork and attempts to destroy and torpedo your life and career based on a fuzzy and politically convenient memory. Watch it.”
Well Tomi Lahren, if you took your head out of the clouds, maybe then you will realize all of the corrupt things that Trump has done since he started his presidency. Would you still think he is better than Barack Obama if you came to realize about how awful of a president and person he is? Barack Obama was a better preident than Trump by a landslide.
So how about YOU sit down?
The very last day one will be able to register to vote online, in person, and by mail in order to be able to vote in the general election is Oct. 12.
If you will not be in your hometown on Nov. 6, which is Advisement Day for Saint Rose students, you will need to get an absentee ballot if you want to vote.
