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Thirty years ago, a unipolar world was proclaimed with us on top. Yet we’ve never quite figured out what any of that means.
Our friends the British are forever being accused of suffering through an identity crisis. Ever since Brexit or Thatcherism or Suez, the thinking goes, the United Kingdom has never figured out what its place in the world is, at least against the vast empire it once commanded. The Union Jack soars, “Rule Britannia!” plays, but it all comes off as sentimental nostalgia for a time when Britain’s role was much more etched and sharply defined.
That may or may not be true (at the very least, the British aren’t the first postcolonial nation to undergo such a problem). But what is true is that we Americans are in a similar position. We don’t like to acknowledge it; we don’t like to think about it in those terms, but we’re in the midst of our own identity crisis and have been for some time.
It remains an open question: In the year 2021, what is America?
During the Cold War, the answer was more or less clear. The United States was at the vanguard of the free world, a paladin of democracy and liberalism battling against the dark hordes of Soviet totalitarianism. Of course, it was never that cut and dry. America suffered through the revolutions of the 1960s and the consequent hangovers of the 1970s. Crime, social unrest, deindustrialization, Vietnam, Watergate, stagflation, and gas lines all tarnished that image and bred self-doubt.
Yet the existence of an enemy, an antithesis in the USSR, helped steel our identity. Whatever we were, we wouldn’t be that. And come the 1980s, America the Free had found her moment. The Berlin Wall collapsed, the champagne corks came flying, and the galaxy-brains chattered about a new “unipolar world” in which nothing could hope to challenge American power. What was the United States? The optimism and consumerism of the 1990s seemed to hold an answer: a swaggering, free-trading, rapidly secularizing capitalist paradise that was simultaneously starry-eyed about the future and so over the politics of the past. The 1996 presidential election saw the lowest voter turnout in 70 years. The end of history had arrived, heralded by a snigger from Beavis and Butt-Head.
Then came 9/11 and suddenly a revision was in order. Those hijacked planes, the Bush administration pronounced, had come not just out of a clear blue sky but an age of American naivete. The United States had slumbered, collecting Beanie Babies when it should have been alert to impending threats. Well, no more. America would not only respond to the attacks, it would at last accept the responsibilities that had come with immense power. It would stop looking inward and unsheathe a crusader’s sword. It would go to war and bring democracy to the darkest ratholes of the earth. Politics, power, and ideological struggle were back in, baby. “Our responsibility to history is already clear,” declared President George W. Bush, “to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.”
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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JD Rucker