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Media Trust Waning
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| Hello, I'm Jared Taylor with American Renaissance. | |
| The Internet is trying to make my videos impossible to find. | |
| So if you like what you see, I hope you'll send this link to all of your friends. | |
| This year is almost over, so I'd like to talk about prospects for the next year. | |
| I'm optimistic. | |
| We are making progress, and the loonies are on the ropes. | |
| I have personal reasons to think this, but also I have hard data. | |
| Let's start with the data. | |
| As we know, the other side runs the media, and the media have tremendous power. | |
| But that power is waning. | |
| Just a few days ago, the Associated Press had a story called Cable News Lost Plenty of Viewers in 2021. | |
| CNN lost 38% of its weekday primetime viewers compared to 2020. | |
| Fox lost 34% and MSNBC lost 25%. | |
| Broadcast news was down too. | |
| The three big networks lost 12-14% of the viewers on their main news programs. | |
| Newspapers suffered. | |
| The Washington Post's website traffic was down 44% in November compared to the year before. | |
| And the New York Times site was down 34%. | |
| About 120 papers closed their doors in 2021. | |
| There are explanations for this. | |
| 2020 was an election year and was also the year of Black Lives Mania, so in 2021, people were probably less hungry for news. | |
| However, as traditional media slumped, dissident media grew. | |
| Despite the tremendous obstacles search engines and social media put in our way, sites like Amran, UNS, V-Dare, CounterCurrents, and others did just fine. | |
| Big media down, dissidents up. | |
| This helps explain why. | |
| These are results of Pew Research polling on trust in national news organizations over the last five years. | |
| The gray line in the middle shows that trust by all adults dropped from 76% to 58%, but the red line, Republicans, went from 70% to 35%. | |
| Democrats, not surprisingly, trust the media more, but they lost faith too. | |
| When people lose faith in them, they look to us. | |
| Gallup has been polling Americans for several decades on their trust in institutions. | |
| Trust in TV news is at its lowest ever. | |
| Only 6% of Americans have a great deal of confidence in it, and 10% have quite a lot, for a total of just 16%. | |
| In 1993, 46% of Americans had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in TV news. | |
| A drop from 46% to 16% in 28 years is a catastrophic collapse. | |
| Only 19% of Americans have a great deal of confidence in churches and organized religion. | |
| 19% is a record low. | |
| The figure was 44% in 1975. | |
| Americans despise Congress. | |
| Only 5% of the country has a great deal of confidence in it, but Congress has had bad ratings for years. | |
| It's even been as low as 3%. | |
| And as far back as 1983, just 6% of Americans had a great deal of confidence in Congress. | |
| Here is a graph of the number of white Americans who think the federal government does the right thing all or most of the time. | |
| As you can see, back in the 1960s, 70-75% of whites trusted the feds. | |
| Imagine trusting the federal government. | |
| Trust went up. | |
| Under Clinton, of all people. | |
| And hit a peak at the time of the 9-11 attacks. | |
| But it hit bottom under Obama. | |
| And bounced up a bit for Trump. | |
| The figure is now 19%. | |
| I bet it will drop under Biden. | |
| Americans are losing confidence in higher education. | |
| These are the percentages of people who think the influence of colleges and universities on the country is good. | |
| The top line, Democrats. | |
| Don't change that much from 2010 to 2019, but look at the red line, Republicans. | |
| That's a steep drop, from 58% to just one-third. | |
| I bet that number has continued to fall. | |
| Again, Americans who lose faith in national institutions are much more likely to come looking for us. | |
| Trust in the police has held up better than you might think. | |
| In 2021, 51% of Americans said they had a great deal or quite a lot of trust in the police. | |
| In polling since 1993, 2004 was the year of the highest trust in the police, with a figure of 64%. | |
| But the police have not lost trust nearly as much as TV news or universities or churches, despite the huge media campaign against them. | |
| There are important race differences in trust in institutions. | |
| Stop the video and look more closely if you like. | |
| Blacks are twice as likely as whites to trust TV news and to trust Congress. | |
| Whites are twice as likely as blacks to trust the police. | |
| Hispanics often have more trust in American institutions than blacks or whites. | |
| They trust Congress. | |
| The criminal justice system, big tech, and public schools far more than anyone else. | |
| I guess it's all relative compared to where they come from. | |
| Here are historical trends for what blacks and whites think about black-white relations. | |
| These are the percentages who think relations are very or somewhat good. | |
| Whites are the blue line at the top and blacks are the green line. | |
| For most of the last 20 years, a majority of both races thought relations were good. | |
| Not anymore. | |
| This year, only 43% of whites and 33% of blacks think black-white relations are good. | |
| Solid majorities of both races think relations are bad. | |
| Here are the percentages of blacks and whites who think it's possible to work out a solution to the black-white race problem. | |
| The trend was up from 1996 to 2008, but it's been level ever since. | |
| This year, 60% of whites and 40% of blacks think there will eventually be a solution. | |
| But that means the rest don't. | |
| 60% of blacks and 40% of whites think either there's no solution to the race problem, or they're just not sure. | |
| That's a lot of people who should be open to rethinking the whole idea of living together. | |
| With all this plummeting confidence in government, higher education, the media, deteriorating race relations, is it any surprise our support is growing? | |
| And is it any surprise that Americans want a new country? | |
| Here's a headline. | |
| Shocking poll finds many Americans now want to secede from the United States. | |
| Are you shocked? | |
| I'm delighted. | |
| In the whole country, 37% of Americans say they would be willing to secede. | |
| The figure is highest in the South, 44%, and 66% of Southern Republicans want to get out. | |
| On the West Coast, 47% of Democrats want to secede. | |
| Senator Ted Cruz of Texas says he's not ready to leave the union yet. | |
| But if Democrats, in his words, fundamentally destroy the country, Texas might have to go out on its own. | |
| And what's this? | |
| At the very end of the year, one of the topics trending on Twitter is national divorce. | |
| I've been saying it for years. | |
| We have irreconcilable differences. | |
| Some people think we've seen the worst of the craziness. | |
| On December 13th, the American Conservative published an article called, Is Wokeness Almost Over? | |
| The author, Scott McConnell, pointed to the rising fight against critical race theory and the defeat of defund the police measures even in heavily Democrat cities. | |
| Well, I don't think wokeness is almost over. | |
| I don't see official anti-white dogma going away soon. | |
| But there is a lot more resistance to it. | |
| The foolishness and the viciousness could go on for years while opposition builds and then bursts forth in ways we can't even anticipate. | |
| But to me, the most encouraging sign is that wide-away quiet people are organizing more and better. | |
| There are more websites, video channels, publishers, and activist groups than ever. | |
| Groups are now much better at maintaining security, and they are not courting media attention that does no good anyway. | |
| They are just quietly getting stronger. | |
| Another wonderful development is something the print version of American Renaissance wrote a cover story about 17 years ago, building white communities. | |
| Just this month, I was invited to speak at the Christmas party of a thriving community of several hundred people. | |
| They are very family-oriented, they get together often, and they help each other in every way. | |
| There are several communities like that, and I'm sure there will be more. | |
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Indestructible Faith in Europe
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| These could be the nuclei of great things. | |
| So, I hope you share my optimism. | |
| The other side has the institutions and the power, but we have the truth. | |
| The other side is floundering. | |
| We are small, but we are thriving. | |
| Also, we are part of what I believe is the greatest struggle our people have ever faced. | |
| It is in great struggles that men and women achieve greatness. | |
| I will end with a quotation from a book by the European patriot Dominic Venner. | |
| Which has just been translated into English. | |
| Whatever you do, your priority must be to cultivate within yourself every day like an augury of good fortune, an indestructible faith in the permanence of the European tradition. | |
| We know that individually we are mortal, but that the spirit of our spirit is imperishable. | |
| When will the Great Awakening occur? | |
| I do not know. | |
| But of this awakening, I have no doubt. | |
| So, I wish you every success in all your ventures in the year to come. | |