I am on the secular center-left as opposed to the religious right. I oppose gender identity ideology as destructive to women’s sex-based rights and the right to freedom of speech and expression.
I oppose gender ideology on the same grounds that I oppose the collectivist denial of individual rights fronted by the more radical arm of the BLM movement and pro-Trump nationalist forces alike.
I declare for liberty of conscience and freedom of thought, and intellectual freedom, the most fundamental fonts of human freedom, for without those wellsprings within the individual, liberty is impossible.
I also declare for freedom of association and the end of “guilt by association” policies. Ideas don’t have rights, individuals do. Dissenters do. Women do. Nonconformists do.
I declare opposition to both majoritarian tyranny and minoritarian tyranny, wherever and whenever they arise. I oppose executive tyranny and legislative tyranny. I oppose both parliamentarian tyranny and populist tyranny.
I oppose unfettered mob democracy in which the individual has no rights. I oppose unfettered oligarchy in which the majority has no rights.
I oppose coercive media and institutional crusades for “progressive” or any form of ideological purity.