Banning Books

Re: the meme here, let’s be honest.  Until a few years ago, the idea of removing controversial books from school libraries never occurred to anyone.  We didn’t need book police to determine what was right or wrong for our children, simply because we trusted our teachers and other faculty members.

That was before teachers’ failure to comply with Florida’s new book laws became a felony, and long before these folks’ pay was cut so as to make their lives completely miserable, forcing many of the best of them to quit.

Preventing our kids from reading The Grapes of Wrath, because it challenges the premise of unbridled capitalism, is a new idea to the United States, a country founded on the free expression of ideas and the concept of critical thinking.

Yet here we are.

In other (though related) news, Trump, desperately hoping that American ignorance will protect him from criminal prosecution, hasn’t yet selected a running mate for his bid for a second term in 2024, after his unsuccessful bid to overthrow the U.S. government following his loss in 2020.