{"id":8884,"date":"2016-09-02T16:20:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2016-09-02T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T20:20:09","slug":"did-michele-bachmann-just-predict-the-death-of-american-democracy-if-hillary-clinton-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/09\/did-michele-bachmann-just-predict-the-death-of-american-democracy-if-hillary-clinton-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Michele Bachmann just predict the death of American democracy if Hillary Clinton wins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/images.washingtonpost.com\/?url=http:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/files\/2016\/08\/CROPExplosion822.jpg&amp;w=1484&amp;op=resize&amp;opt=1&amp;filter=antialias' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>Does it matter? Hasn&#8217;t American Democracy been dead for quite some time? I mean&#8230;think about what you&#8217;ve seen JUST in THIS election SO FAR.<br \/>\nYou have no real voice. You only get to vote for who they tell you you can. Just because you get TWO candidates on a ballot, doesn&#8217;t mean you live in a democracy. I mean, even Putin always runs against SOMEONE. In our case, we just have 2 Dictatorship Parties, who manufacture rules to pervert democracy as fast as they manufacture &#8220;the Truth&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wapo.st\/2c7XaXR\">http:\/\/wapo.st\/2c7XaXR<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does it matter? Hasn&#8217;t American Democracy been dead for quite some time? I mean&#8230;think about what you&#8217;ve seen JUST in THIS election SO FAR. You have no real voice. You only get to vote for who they tell you you can. Just because you get TWO candidates on a ballot, doesn&#8217;t mean you live in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-8884","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":12097,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/the-war-on-facts-is-a-war-on-democracy\/","url_meta":{"origin":8884,"position":0},"title":"The War on Facts is a War on Democracy","date":"January 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The war on Truth is a war on Civilization itselfhttp:\/\/bit.ly\/2jCcpbV","rel":"","context":"In &quot;blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8456,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2016\/08\/slavoj-zizek-the-hillary-consensus-is-damaging-democracy\/","url_meta":{"origin":8884,"position":1},"title":"Slavoj \u017di\u017eek: The Hillary consensus is damaging democracy","date":"August 14, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Food for thought.... http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/slavoj-zizek-hillary-clinton-donald-trump-us-presidential-election-bernie-489993 The need to defeat Trump is a breeding a homogeneous movement that lacks principle.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14532,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/downright-orwellian-journalists-count-cost-of-facebooks-impact-on-democracy\/","url_meta":{"origin":8884,"position":2},"title":"&#8216;Downright Orwellian&#8217;: journalists count cost of Facebook&#8217;s impact on democracy","date":"October 25, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"I agree. 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