The Democrats aren't that much better, really. They have the potential to be, but they haven't acted on it in years, preferring to complain and cringe and do nothing. Highly frustrating.

Furi, there is a lot I'd like to respond to in your other comment but I don't have time to go in-depth right now and a quick answer wouldn't do either your points or my feelings about them justice, so for now I will leave it at "what Ikon said" and come back with a more thorough response later. I do want to mention, though, that computers and the Internet have become an integral part of libraries in the last decade or so and you could no more remove them than you could remove all the books. In fact, in some kinds of libraries it might almost be worse.