{"id":18482,"date":"2023-01-13T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=18482"},"modified":"2023-01-13T16:53:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:53:36","slug":"independent-voters-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2023\/01\/independent-voters-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Voters Unite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s time. Time for The Independent Party – A small, but strong group of Independent candidates, who could essentially become the swing vote in Congress on every major issue. A few members of Congress just proved how powerful a small coalition can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The creation of a third party that represents those independent votes, with only a few Congress members in a nearly 50\/50 Congress, could result in those votes becoming the deciding votes. A couple Senators and a handful of Congress members is all it would take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, the educated, thinking class of America, could take out rightful place as the decision makers in this deeply disturbed land. It’s time we stop letting partisan idiots and fools make the important decisions that matter to ALL Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jamie Gray. Voter. Conjurer of Bytes, Notes & Words. Seeker of Truth, Peace, & Harmony. Read the full post: jamiegraymusic.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Authors Note: All opinions expressed here are just that: opinions. If you don’t like mine, I probably won’t like yours either. Let’s just nod, and walk away. Maybe come back with solutions instead of opinions. Because of the two, only solutions actually matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time. Time for The Independent Party – A small, but strong group of Independent candidates, who could essentially become the swing vote in Congress on every major issue. A few members of Congress just proved how powerful a small coalition can be. 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What do YOU think? #LegalizeIt #News420 #NORML The Article 'Congress Lifts Longstanding Ban on Hemp Production' originally appeared on http:\/\/blog.norml.org\/2018\/12\/13\/congress-lifts-longstanding-ban-on-hemp-production\/ Jamie's comments are his own.","rel":"","context":"In "#blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":17629,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2019\/09\/biden-to-call-for-trump-impeachment-if-he-refuses-to-co-operate-with-congress\/","url_meta":{"origin":18482,"position":4},"title":"Biden ‘to call for Trump impeachment’ if he refuses to co-operate with Congress","date":"September 24, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"It's happening... #ImpeachmentIsComing The Article 'Biden 'to call for Trump impeachment' if he refuses to co-operate with Congress' originally appeared on https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/joe-biden-trump-impeach-congress-ukraine-2020-latest-a9118981.html Jamie's comments are his own.","rel":"","context":"In "#blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18535,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2023\/02\/did-george-washington-predict-todays-partisan-divide\/","url_meta":{"origin":18482,"position":5},"title":"Did George Washington Predict Today’s Partisan Divide?","date":"February 20, 2023","format":"image","excerpt":"Looks like we've completely forgotten our first president's warning against the corruptive power of political parties... \u201cThey [political parties] are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "#blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Screenshot_20230220_162835_Chrome_edited.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18525,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18482\/revisions\/18525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}