Native Sun News Today Editorial: The most important vote you will ever cast

Senate candidates and racial justice. Cartoon © Jo Johnson / September 2020

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Monday, September 21, 2020

By Native Sun News Editorial Board

It is time for all Native Americans living in South Dakota to realize that we have the power. We have the vote. All we have to do is find a common goal and vote for it.

Natives are the fastest growing population in the state. How many of you turned 18 since the last election? If so, get down and register to vote now. This is probably the most important vote you will ever cast and if it is your very first vote that is so much better because you will then know that your vote will made a difference.

Everything from the environment to the Post Office has been under siege in the past four years and we are lucky that some members of Congress were able to stand up. Trump was impeached by Congress and yet his impeachment never happened because a Republican Senate refused to vote for it.

And now, 190,000 people have died because Trump was in office when he should have been impeached. All of the Republican senators who refused to impeach him are just as guilty of all of those deaths as Trump because they had the chance to remove him from office before all of this damage was done but chose not to.

According to a book by Bob Woodward, and he recorded all of Trump’s comments, Donald Trump knew all of the dangers of Covid-19 but chose his political future over the health of the American people. In February of 2020, when he had the time to stop the spread of this deadly virus, he chose not to. And he lied over and over in order to cover up his inadequacies.

This man is as dangerous to the future of America as was Adolf Hitler and yet, just like Adolf, he has his numbskull fans cheering him on and overlooking all of his lies and deceit.