It bears repeating and repeat I shall. Repeat I will! Because it bears repeating!
Let me repeat, there is no right wing. The Left Wing is a collective and they are opposed by a coalition, not a collective. Fundamentalist Christians, Randian capitalists, Tea Partiers, paleo-conservatives, neo-conservatives, populists, nationalists, rationalists, skeptics to name but a few categories are unified against a collective that is corrupt, criminal, brutish, thuggish, stupid and woefully anti-American.
If it is too much to discard your belief in a right wing, at least acknowledge that there is no such thing as a right wing monolith. Yes, there is a vast Lefty monolith of cliche-spewing zombies who are gladly spoon-fed their beliefs from the mainstream media and popular culture. Thankfully, our side has no such counterpart.
Which brings us to the demise of "Right Wing News". John Hawkins, the webmeister, blames social media for bullying and abusing conservative news sites. Point taken but then Hawkins relates a second factor in his site's demise (posted at TownHall where he happens to be a columnist. Does he really need RWN to get his word out?)
In addition to that, as someone who has been working for a living in this business since 2005, let me drop a little truth bomb on you. We are now in a very oversaturated, corporation-dominated media environment. If you don’t already have a legacy website that captured traffic years ago and held onto it, huge traffic you can bring in from elsewhere, or millions of dollars to spend, your chances of getting a political website off the ground today are infinitesimal.
Saturation. I don't agree with the saturation analysis but I do believe that a 2005 business model is probably outdated. The ongoing and only trend in cyber space is precision. Narrow, narrower and narrowest. Dating is too big a topic for a website. Interracial dating? Too broad. Polynesians dating Asians? That site has potential.
We have narrowcasting and a hell of a lot of it. Vast! This has been impressed upon me before but it hit home even harder during my Q tangent. I don't have time for the legacy alternative (if that's not an oxymoron) sites like "National Review" or "Reason" or even relative newcomers like "The Blaze." I stopped going to drudge because too many of his links were to pop culture and to MSM sites. Who cares?
My Internet launch pad was "Larwyn's Linx" an aggregate site that sometimes links to "American Spectator" "NRO" and the like but mostly leads to sites like "Zero Hedge," "Pension Tsunami," "The Burning Platform" and other amateur news outlets. Sites that probably do not have paid staff. Three dozen or so daily links probably jumping to at least 150 unique destinations every week! Yes, now we are at ground zero. Or are we?
"Larwyn's Linx" and "Bad Blue" were briefly cutting edge. When Q emerged, they either missed or dismissed him. They concerned themselves with Mueller and Wolff and Bannon and Shitholes and the president's doctor, subjects I could find time to ignore. 150 avant sites and nothing about Q.
To find out about Q, we would have to probe beneath the underground. A new subterranean was formed. A new cutting edge carved itself a niche. And the--pardon the expression--Vast Right Wing, grew even larger.
I believe in semantics and I will not give up too many concessions but whatever we call the movement, it continues to grow and grow and grow. It's a good time to be alive.
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