Anybody can express an opinion on politics. But Jordan Peterson clearly demonstrates an utter lack of knowledge, understanding or study of politics, political philosophy, political economy, sociology or history, as anyone who has studied these areas in depth can immediately see. But he presents his opinions authoritatively, as if he knows what he is talking about, abusing his credentials in psychology, as if that makes him an automatic authority in other domains. It does not. Only people who are likewise ignorant and unstudied in these fields can think he makes sense, much less that he is authoritative. Specific problems with his pseudo-authoritative diatribes on politics: he rationalizes and justifies inequality, and presents a Dr. Pangloss view, akin to the fumbling Fukayama, or the more cerebral Pangloss Pinker (the Pangloss of the neoliberal faux-left) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and neoliberal globalization is the best we can hope for. In short, yes, his venture into politics and political philosophy has been nothing short of a cultural disaster, considering his views are based in utter ignorance, and worse, rationalize complacency, complicity, apathy, and obedience to a social order which Martin Luther King Jr., and any other thinking person, would rightly view as systemically unjust, violent, elitist, imperialist, exploitative, predatory, authoritarian, unsustainable, socially corrosive, and rabidly anti-democratic. That is more than a little problematic. In psychology, maybe he has credentials. Maybe. In politics, he is a charlatan.
Debunking Jordan Peterson
Well Jordan Peterson is certainly far more intelligent than me.