During the Maryland Senate race, I received promotional materials in the mail and saw about 100 ads on television and on the Internet. All the ads benefiting Republican candidate Larry Hogan blast his rival Angela Alsobrooks for claiming she’s not entitled to tax credits for her property. All of Alsobrooks’ ads attack Hogan for claiming to support reproductive rights, despite his past opposition. Not one of the hundred or more ads talks about where the candidates stand on different issues.
Hogan’s super PAC spent $18.3 million to smear Alsobrooks, but the only reason they did so was to claim a tax credit she’d claimed for years. Kenneth C. Griffin, an out-of-state man from Chicago worth $35 billion, has donated $10 million to Hogan’s super PAC. Is this what democracy should be like? Given this misunderstanding of the nature of democracy, what right does the United States have to shoehorn democracy into other countries, for example. Cuba, Venezuela, etc.?
