There's a deliberate long term strategic and tactical conflation of Freedom of Religion (which is freedom to believe whatever..) and Freedom of Speech (which is protection of public political discourse from oppression or censorship by Government or legislation abusing it's power).
Freedom of Religion : you can make up any old shit, and set up a temple, and invite people in, and if they bite the bait, all good and you have tax exemption status.
Free Speech : the legal right and duty to speak truth to Power as part of combatting oppressive and authoritarian Governments,
Right Wing
Most of what is 'Right-wing' is really a matter of belief, the core belief in the might is right ideology. Racism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, hatred of immigrants as a category, Traditional Values and Hierarchy of Wealth and a sense of superiority.
That is why they are so LOUD!
Center
Most of what is centre is evading the issue of abuse of Power. They are terrified of the Might of the Right, because they understand the danger and they just want to get along. That is why they are so quiet. They never confront the Might is Right head on, they make feeble attempts to regulate minimally the ordinary street level might is righters.
Social
Most of what is Social is confronting abuse of Power. That is why they are so often cancelled, their voices regulated to the sides by the Right and the Center. They want to call it all out, they wish to build social solidarity because they understand that the only way to handle a bully in a crowd is for the crowd to stand in solidarity and say no.
Whiteness is a lie.
British ex-Empire Asset Management (the Establishment we rarely see - symbolised by The Crown which we do see) involvement is a large part of every EU and US 'intervention'. From China to Afghanistan, across Africa South America and the anglophone arena.
Even after WW2, British Commercial Interests retained dominant control of all assets previously held under Empire. They destabilised every former colony that attempted to take back control of local or indigenous assets.
And they succeeded apart from Russia, China, Vietnam, Libya, Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea.
US UK have been more than mere allies. Anglophone business partners. Not each others puppets. The narrative of puppetry places the blame on the individuals and the Governments of the day, which masks the Asset Management Group both Governments work for, and have always worked for.
Cameron initiated the bombing of Libya.
Johnson barred peace talks in Ukraine.
Blair invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, Sierra Leone.
Every British prime minister since WW2 has operated warfare on behalf of the Asset Management Group, and has done so with the assent of The British Monarch.
There are many countries that pay homage to The Crown. Those countries are not independent.
Anglophone oppression of indigenous people is still very much happening in Australia, Canada, USA and New Zealand.
The reason is Asset Management, the tactic is Racist Superiority, the strategic value is control of resources.
Imagine if the indigenous polities were instantly given full rights and they decided no more Industrial extraction of Oil, no more Uranium, Copper, Iron Ore, Lithium Mining, no more Logging, no more Fishing, no more Cattle Ranching and Commodity Crop Agriculture was to be permitted on indigenous lands?
Who would oppose that and why? And how would they go about it?
Internalised Values
There is a difficulty for lots of people born to the anglophone Caucasian European heritage, in that as long as we identify as White, we re-internalise the first step of Racism. We protect the racist asset management system with our identification.
There are no white people, they do not exist.
The very first step of Racism and Supremacy is the definition of White as a category. There are no white people. It is a delusion, an confidence trick, a very dodgy belief.
Repudiating that delusion, that confidence trick, that very dodgy belief within one's own identity construction is an essential part of the work to begin to start to dismantle the Racist Element of the Domination system.
This is essential to the task of building the kind of social political solidarity that can confront the might is right dynamic that is killing people in Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan and in many other policies, the same dynamic that is refusing to enable action of Climate Disruption to be taken in the way it is needed, the same dynamic the drives misogyny, ableism, xenophobia, anti-trans hatreds...
Right, Center, Social. There is no Left.
I am not left, I am social, I am for social equity and kindness, I am for governance that avoids avoidable harms, I am for a culture that nurtures..
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