No, Media, The Alt-Right Is Not "Reeling"

Leftists fear and despise the corporation. Corporations, in their view, are bad actors who will manipulate government and control our lives, just as they do in Hollywood movies. Corporations are evil. They intend to take over completely, make us all serfs, and then convert the world into some kind of cybernetic 1984 singularity.

This might worry you, but then again, Leftists are unhappy neurotics, so you take everything they say with a grain of salt. Leftists forget that corporations are simply large businesses that are responsible to shareholders instead of a single owner. They are not inherently evil, but like all individuals and all businesses, they are driven by a profit motive.

However, Leftists seem to excuse them of that when the corporations in question are part of the media. A news corporation exists to tell us the unvarnished truth and hold back fascist government, which despite having been leaning Left for the last seventy years, somehow is still prone to become a hybrid of Adolf Hitler, the Ku Klux Klan, and Benito Mussolini all at once.

They ignore the fact that, like people trying to break into a conversation, media thrives on the salacious, disastrous, tragic, terrifying, and titillating because these are the things that sell newspapers, video ads, clicks, and cable subscriptions.

As a result, we should take it with a grain of salt when we read a headline like "'Alt-right' reeling after string of setbacks" because, most likely, this is eye-candy and click-bait, not some meaningful representation of reality:

Richard Spencer, who coined the term “alt-right” to describe a loosely connected band of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and other far-right extremists, suspended a college tour after violent clashes overshadowed one of his campus speeches in March. He and other leading alt-right figures are fighting lawsuits without help from lawyers. Many also are struggling to raise money or spread their messages after losing access to mainstream internet platforms. A few have even dropped out of the movement altogether.

Spencer suspended his college tour after clashes between white nationalists and protesters overshadowed his sparsely attended speech at Michigan State. He claims the violence has dissuaded many “normal people” from attending his speeches, and he accuses university officials of stifling free speech.

“I don’t want to sound like a nerd, but the Empire struck back and figured out ways of scuttling what we were doing,” he said. “I’ll be back.”

The truth can be found between the lines: the Alt-Right is changing strategy. It never was a political movement, but a cultural one, and its new cultural strategy is suffering not so much from Antifa rioters but a need to catch up with events in politics, and this is causing strain that others find difficult to understand.

When the Alt-Right started out, talking about rejecting migrants or illegal aliens was seen as the worst sin ever, "racism," and just was not done. Now on both continents it has been normalized. In the same way, the idea of nations (called "ethno-states" in the media) -- or groups united by heritage and not politics and economics alone -- has risen on both shores. People are seeing the way around Leftism.

Leftism tells us that we must live in a "We Are All One" world where all people are equal, mainly because Leftism has one idea, egalitarianism, or the notion that all people are or should be equal. That translates to a malignant individualism where individuals say that no one can tell them what to do or penalize them for their own bad behavior. Leftists want to be able to act out and have society subsidize their behavior.

The Alt-Right is regrouping for the next step, which is taking us from "wow, this Leftism thing has totally failed" to "this is the future we desire." Spencer once famously mentioned space ships and fields and wheat, but this is what is in our hearts. We want a natural, normal life for ourselves and for other groups to go pursue their own fates and fortunes alone. And we want to use technology for good, not just short term iPod-style profit.

It is too convenient to claim that the Alt-Right is "reeling." It is now engaged in an intense debate within itself about how to take the next step. This is too complex a thought for the media, so instead you get this comic book cartoon where one character is punching another and then getting decked with a convenient table. In reality, the Alt-Right is enjoying a victory feast and pondering where next to conquer.