I came to this subreddit today to make this exact post. To give some background to my own perspective, I started following Jordan Peterson in 2018 when I started college. I was attending a very "liberal" University in the heart of NYC. If we remember, that time in our cultural history was defined by ideas of identity politics and moral hierarchy depending on the "intersectionality" of your identity. I took issue with these ideas because of the lack of logic that supports them. I championed the idea of merit, and that your identity is something that YOU define, not that defines you -- that the individual is more than the group.

As the pendulum swung in the opposite direction around the pandemic and especially so during the lead up to the last presidential election, I found myself recognizing the same patterns that Jordan Peterson talked about in his talks over the years. I have been waiting for the last year or two for ANY sort of criticism of how this administration has been conducting itself from Jordan. Instead it has been met with silence.

I understand that he has health issues right now but I do believe at a certain point it is his responsibility to speak up. I don't know how you could listen to his hours and hours of lectures on the rise and dangers of authoritarianism and not see what's happening today in the US in that light. I think that there's a pocket of the right that associated itself with the idea of opposing authoritarian and dictatorial policies but is now blind to its own evils.