“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell, Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
Orwell wrote these words more than a half-century ago. He spent the first part of his adult life as a leftist. He awakened when Stalin’s death squads, his former comrades, turned on him during the Spanish Civil War. As Samuel Johnson famously said: “Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”
So what has changed about truth in America? Why is it suddenly unwelcome? Part of the answer is that our once cherished 4th Estate, the supposed defenders of truth, freedom, and our democracy, are now instead the robotic bootlickers of leftist tyrants and utopian muttonheads. Our mainstream media chorus sings with one voice, they mouth the same DNC talking points. They endlessly echo the same jargon and doublethink in perfect unison. They sing the same song from the Beltway, from Hollywood, from New York, and nearly every College Campus. They move as one to banish or silence any dissent. Wither the truth?
Against this discordant symphony of lies and suppression arises the small voice of The Railer. Our mission, our passion, is to tell the truth. Especially those that fools don’t want to hear.