The Real path is the Path...
Disregard left and right, spiritual and temporal, conservative and liberal, masculine and feminine, Whig vs Tory, Sunni vs Shiite, or whatever.
We should not follow a path "because we are told to" but "because we choose to", with careful checking of its soundness.
Then we can stand up in public and explain WHY it is a good idea, for us, now.