{"id":13768,"date":"2017-07-14T12:27:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=13768"},"modified":"2017-07-14T12:27:09","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T16:27:09","slug":"back-to-the-future-universalizing-resistance-democratizing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/back-to-the-future-universalizing-resistance-democratizing-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to the Future: Universalizing Resistance, Democratizing Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/views-article\/thumbs\/democracy_convention_org.jpg?w=980&#038;ssl=1' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Hey, there&#8217;s a GOOD thing about Trump (yes, I really had to stretch to find one) &#8211; He is SO bad at his new job that he is uniting people together AGAINST HIM, that would never usually talk to each other, much less agree on anything. He could single handedly create the greatest populist uprising ever in America&#8230;and Democracy could end up stronger for the fact that we HAD to come together against him to stop the fucking insanity.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t agree though that if you&#8217;re a Constitutionalist, you want to fuck Everybody except white males over. The Constitutionalist who ignores the Bill of Rights is no Constitutionalist&#8230;just a major asshole.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2v0fGrM\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2v0fGrM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, there&#8217;s a GOOD thing about Trump (yes, I really had to stretch to find one) &#8211; He is SO bad at his new job that he is uniting people together AGAINST HIM, that would never usually talk to each other, much less agree on anything. He could single handedly create the greatest populist uprising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-13768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13887,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/john-mccains-maverick-moment\/","url_meta":{"origin":13768,"position":0},"title":"John McCain&#8217;s maverick moment","date":"July 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't agree with McCain on many many things. 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