Cynthia A. Baldwin: Democracy—bah, humbug

Cynthia A. Baldwin: Democracy—bah, humbug

‘Tis the season and we probably have all known someone with some of the characteristics of the fictional Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character in Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Dickens describes Scrooge as a “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint…secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.” That Scrooge changed after visits from the ghost of his former business partner J…