By Michael Woyton
Since President Donald J. Felon began his second swing at ruining running the country, a judge has been arrested, a Black mayor was arrested, a Black congresswoman was indicted, a Mexican-American senator was thrown to the floor after being forceable removed from a public press conference in a federal building and the chief financial officer of New York City who is Jewish was arrested.
And, of course, there was an assassination of a political leader in Minnesota and an attempted assassination.
Note that none of the above are Republicans.
Subscribe to On Second Thought for free:
We have a Congress with only Republicans in charge and a majority maga Supreme Court that are enamored with the grifter-in-chief and don’t seem to care that said grifter and his main henchman Stephen Miller are bit by bit taking over all three branches of government.
So it is a little bit disappointing that Barack Obama in an appearance in Connecticut with writer Heather Cox Richardson that the “country was ‘dangerously close‘ to allowing its government officials to act in a way ‘consistent with autocracies’,” according to the New York Times.
Unfortunately, audio and video recordings were prohibited at the event, so have to rely on news reports.
But the Times said Obama has made it clear he does not intend to become an opposition leader.
“His comments were unlikely to satisfy Democratic officials and voters who have grumbled about his reluctance to wade into contemporary politics, wanting him to offer more vocal and frequent criticism of the Trump administration,” the Times said.
Cox Richardson apparently did not press the former president “on the desires to some to see him more active or on his view of the limits of being an ex-president and member of a party struggling for a direction and new leadership,” according to reporting by CT Mirror.
The article said Obama barely touched on recent events, and he never said the name “Trump” during the 90-minute event.
Cox Richardson asked him what advice he would give young people to enable them to be optimistic about the future.
The 44th president said he was still the “hope guy” and added that change is a game of addition, not subtraction.
That means “you have to find ways to make common ground with people who don’t agree with you on everything but agree with on something,” he said.
That all sounds good on paper, but to my ears it falls short given the stakes and constant march toward completely losing our democracy.
Mueller wasn’t there to help us; Merrick Garland didn’t seem to care; Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries just are pathetic.
And now Obama is busy writing the second volume of his memoir and producing television shows and documentaries.
It seems we are truly on our own and it’s going to take more than a wink and a nod to our current predicament to do something about it.
Hopefully, momentum from the No Kings protests will continue through the summer and our voices will be heard.
Find and follow me on BlueSky through this link.
Lead art: Screen grab from The Connecticut Forum website.
On Second Thought 