This is what I've been trying very badly to say the whole time I've been a member on RigTalk in the OTC. And it's caused issues, but carry on.
I don't think it matters what you are. Gay, straight, black, white, Muslim, Christian, Trans, hillbilly, woke inner city soy boy, rifle shooting whatever.
You do you.
But if you're an extremist, you're angry and violent and you believe that your country should only be for those who believe in your totalitarian agenda, then there's no place for you.
I'm absolutely Left leaning when it comes to socio-economic policy. I believe higher taxes and universal health care and quality public education are good things, because it raises the bar for everybody, and everybody benefits when things like literacy, life expectancy and health care are more accessible on the whole.
I've been called a Communist, a pedophile, had my job as a teacher attacked. It's more funny than anything because I know this comes from a lifestyle of isolation and fear.
Most people are moderate in their outlook. Moderate Christians, moderate Muslim, moderate gay, moderate straight, moderate redneck, moderate woke. The problem isn't a subset of the demographic or a particular type of human, it's people who enforce their individuality to become the norm who are the problem. And a hell of a lot of that happens on the Right and the Left, and across all religions and lifestyle choices.
We just need to turn everything back a few notches on everybody's dial I think.