The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.
@volts.wtf @eschaton It's like some of these folks haven't been to states that only have state liquor stores.
@alexr @volts.wtf @eschaton Aside: how many such states are left? I remember when my home state closed its state stores but I never considered what states still run them.