I hate when I go to a book store and have to spend time turning over books by liberal authors. It’s a dirty job, but someone has to do it.
Virtually everyone working in bookshops and libraries is a left winger, for various reasons. But conservatives, imho, tend to be more cerebral, and read far more and more widely than liberals who seem to all live in an echo chamber. The New York Times, to take one example, has long since become unreadable.
Yes local book sellers and librarians all have the smug self-righteous smiles of uninformed leftists as they stand among their limited slice of skewed propaganda.
Also, Amazon did ‘em in.
It’s because the left is not “liberal” in the true dictionary sense.
It’s very intolerant and wants to create a “new man”, which requires the death of key ideas.
Hence the censorship.
I remember going into Costco and seeing a pile of Ann Coulter’s books (this was a while back) on display. The ugly yellow price tag had been deliberately placed over her face on every book. Regardless of what you think of the author now or thought of her then, it was a classless thing to do and I never bought another book from Costco.
“The odd thing is that for generations, booksellers were courteous to all patrons and deliberately stocked a wide range of books, including controversial ones and titles they personally disfavored. A pleasant and obliging manner toward customers and a love of books and ideas were foundational principles of retail bookselling. The Left gradually killed that off, retail bookstores declined, and the Left then whined that corporate greed had done bookstores in — even as they held the smoking gun in their own hands.”
Isn’t it odd. Surveys show that it is more likely that a leftists would break of a long-timed friendship should they discover the friend had decided to vote Republican than vice versa. And anecdotal stories bear that out. than But WE are the ones that are called “intolerant.