Excerpt:
"Orwell wrote about telling the truth being a revolutionary act – in a time of universal deceit. But what led to the time of universal deceit? Such as the one we’re living in right now?

James Kunstler pinned the tail on the totalitarian donkey the other day. He wrote that “a society hostile to truth can’t possibly remain civilized, because it will also be hostile to reality.”

And that explains everything. Makes sense of the otherwise insensible.

How else to explain the hostility toward the telling of truth about – let’s start here – the electric vehicles that the government, via its regulatory regime, is effectively forcing the car industry to manufacture and thus leaving car buyers fewer and fewer new car options that are not “electrified”?

The truth is there would be few, if any, electric vehicles available for sale were it not for the regulatory regime that advantages them and disadvantages their functionally superior competition. The latter being functionally superior – as well as significantly less expensive. Thus accounting for the need to disadvantage them.

These are inarguable truths, just the same as the truth that – if people weren’t paid to buy EVs via subsidies – even fewer would probably buy them than the few who have.

But when you give voice to these truths, the response is not acknowledgement of them but hostility toward those who voice them."