I try not to write much about politics here because it is so pervasive everywhere else these days. But as a writer who works seven days a week in my own library, it doesn’t sit well with my conscience to remain silent in these current shocking days of global turmoil created by a U.S. President who uses lies as weapons to perpetuate, and even expand, his own power of office.
I urge you to take the time to search the Internet for the Trump administration’s efforts to ban books in public libraries and in the libraries of universities and schools and of government agencies, departments, and institutions. Ask yourself: Why? Ask yourself why he said: “I love the poorly educated.” (Nevada victory speech, Feb. 23 2016) Is this man so afraid of critical thinking that he is making such massive efforts to try to prevent people from doing so?
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” ~
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
