An authoritarian government enacted by election is much worse than one produced by a coup, because while the latter can have little credible pretense of legitimacy, the former can represent itself as fully legitimate and claim the “right” to do whatever awfulness it wants because “the majority wills it”. –
“The Veneer of Legitimacy”
It is not the job of libraries to enforce parental censorship choices; that is the job of parents. – “Garden of the Muses“