Excerpt: CULTS OF THE CULTURE WARS (PART 5). (A.GLASS 2021)

"...Lew Rockwell’s and Murry Rothbard’s PaleoLibertarianism template to reestablish libertarianism as a more right wing orientated political philosophy, before the digital relays of the Internet advanced into the late 1990s, ten years after the “The Case for Paleo-Libertarianism” was written, had very little impact before the dawn of the internet.  It wasn’t until the 2008 Financial Crisis that the schism was beginning to form throughout America within its polarized divide, that the basis of Paleolibertarianism became more established on social media platforms morphing into what is now known as the Alternative Right or alt-right, although not by its intention per se,  but rather the “cherry picked” neoconservatism and fridge elements of right wing libertarianism that were magnified and echo-chambered throughout social media platforms such as Twitter, thus becoming the groundwork of sensationalism to counter a fear that American society was being overridden by socialism via the digital landscape.   Yet, the true schism was revealed when President Donald Trump, an ex-developer, businessman and part time television celebrity became the 45th President of the United States, claimed victory over the democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.  When Trump was elected it did indeed cause a shock across the liberal camps, who believed that Clinton, the possibility of a first woman as a President, would be a follow in from Obama’s historic Presidency, but it very much misread in its arrogance of the widening divisions that Americans felt, more so a distrust for the institutionalism of American government after the 2008 Financial Crisis.  

The Right Wing galvanized the politicization, ensuring that Trump, with his slogan in tow, “Make America Great Again”, that the issue of all America’s social upheaval and the problems that it has incurred, has, as Rockwell stated in The Case for Paleo-Libertarianism is the cultural change that the leftist are attempting to implement.   Trump, aware of the power of social media feeds, particularly Twitter went to work to strengthen the resolve, with a barrage of daily reactionary posts, aimed at defining the Alt-Right as a political ground work for spreading misinformation.  But more importunately it was building off the now cultist hashtag catch cries, which were already devised by elements of the Libertarian right and Alt-Right at the cusp of his presidency, that socially there was a dramatic shift towards a social “Marxist” agenda, mainly spurred by, once again, cherry picked so called left-wing hashtag activism of celebrities, that when looked  at objectively were designed to source larger markets or followers online, rather than any sincere groundwork of activism.  Yet, it was enough to feedback into the Alt-Right conspiracy that American traditionalism and values were under attack with a President who attempted to play the media as a co-conspirator in the spread of left wing dominance within America..."

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CULTS OF THE CULTURE WARS (PART 5). (A.GLASS 2021)