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

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.

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.”

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