Missouri cut Dolly Parton's book program because lawmakers don't know its value

It's almost as if some lawmakers are the worst kind of cynics; they know the price of everything and the value of nothing. But this is a democracy, and as H. L. Mencken put it:

> “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Programs helping vulnerable groups, domestic violence survivors, children, the elderly, non-white people etc. (in other words, "woke" social programs) are usually the first to get gutted by a Republican administration looking to "tighten their belts."

And I assume given the current political atmosphere in the US that this was made even easier by the fear that children might be exposed to wrongthink. Libraries are a known vector for exposure to un-Christian propaganda the "gay agenda," and we can't have that.

naive benefit of the doubt strikes again. learned ignorance is a vile intent of the far right.