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