On Thursday, the writer and editor Margaret Kimberley joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour to discuss the current crisis of democracy in the US.
A recent article by activist and former Green Party vice presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka considers the Democratic Party’s substitution of Kamala Harris as its presumptive presidential nominee and the development’s significance within the US political system. “The gangster move by the oligarchs that control the Democrats stripped away any pretense that any real structures of democracy exist in that party,” Baraka suggests.The article argues that special interests appear to hold sufficient power to remove a presidential nominee and quickly fill that role with whomever they choose.On Thursday, writer and activist Margaret Kimberley joined Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program to discuss the current crisis of democracy in the US, as well as Nicaragua’s struggle against US intervention as they recently celebrate 45 years since the Sandinista revolution, which ushered in a government the United States deems to be undemocratic.“They pushed Biden through, they rigged it for him four years ago.
