Speaking of democracy…

by | Aug 5, 2024

Speaking of democracy…

by | Aug 5, 2024

Democracy has been a much discussed topic of late, what with the separation of President Joe Biden from his delegates only weeks before the upcoming Democratic party convention, to be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, 2024.

There have been brokered conventions in history before, but will Vice President Kamala Harris secure the Democratic party’s presidential nomination after entirely bypassing the primary process and receiving not a single vote from the electorate? Only time will tell.

Right before the DNC palace coup, and just after the attempt on former President Trump’s life, Alex Bernardo interviewed Laurie Calhoun on The Protestant Libertarian Podcast, focusing on the question:

Is Democracy a Sham?

The springboard for this discussion was an essay, “Sham-ocracy, Scam-ocracy,” published by the Libertarian Institute on June 17, 2024.

 

Laurie Calhoun

Laurie Calhoun

Laurie Calhoun is a Senior Fellow for The Libertarian Institute. She is the author of Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times,We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age, War and Delusion: A Critical Examination, Theodicy: A Metaphilosophical Investigation, You Can Leave, Laminated Souls, and Philosophy Unmasked: A Skeptic's Critique. In 2015, she began traveling around the world while writing. In 2020, she returned to the United States, where she remained until 2023 as a result of the COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed by governments nearly everywhere.

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