Stephan:   This story, in my view, is reporting on a trend that is a very big deal. There is nothing original about it, it is straight out of the standard authoritarian christofascst playbook. The American Republican Party is following in the steps of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin and, now Putin. These people, this party, does not want people to be educated, they do not want them to be able to access facts, they fear, and despise thinking. Why? Because facts and learning how to think reveal the universal inferiority of what the Republicans are advocating. The evidence is clear and unimpeachable, Red state governance is always inferior as proven by objectively verifiable social outcome data, and the same is true at the federal level. In order for Republicans to get into office, they play on fear, fear of people with low IQs, poorly educated Whites that fear they are being replaced. Notice it is always left ill-defined. They play on the fear that the government is not to be trusted. They play on fear that manhood itself is threatened by uppity women who don't know their place. And to about 30 or 40 percent of Whites that fear and their ignorance is enough to get them to vote Republican. This attack on libraries is something you can work against. Libraries are handled locally, and if you go to library board meetings and speak up against censuring books, you can make a difference. It is up to you.