Leftists are bigots who desperately hate anything to do with western culture, I get that.
Leftists ARE modern western culture: the ideals of science, open enquiry, breaking with blind adherence to tradition and closed-minded dogma and always being open to new ideas and ways of doing things, tolerance and pluralism, cosmopolitanism, secular democracy, etc...
These arose as a backlash to the backward dark ages- which was the same culture as the Muslims. So MAGA culture has far more in common with the Muslims than the modern west. MAGA is not western culture today- nor the ideals that made America great. It's a medieval throwback to the dark ages.
“During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution. What influence in fact have ecclesiastical establishments had on Civil Society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the Civil authority; in many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny: in no instance have they been seen the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate it needs them not.”
-James Madison
"All National institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."
-Thomas Paine
“But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?”
– John Adams, letter to FA Van der Kamp, December 27, 1816.
"History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes."
_Thomas Jeffeson, letter to Alexander von Humboldt, Dec 6, 1813
"They [the Christian clergy] believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly; for I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. But this is all they have to fear from me: and enough, too, in their opinion."
-Thomas Jefferson to Dr. Benjamin Rush, Sept. 23, 1800
"Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck."
-Thomas Jefferson
But why is it a "Crusade" and "bad" that the Catholics invaded Jerusalem to protect Christians, yet democrats praise Muslims for invading Jerusalem to subdue it for their god Muhammad?
Well, I guess leftists see themselves as superior, because instead of just having one standard for all, they have evolved to double standards...
9 out of 10 Americans agree, democrats suck.
Is that the same America where everyone is chasing after cat eating Haitians and cancer causing wind turbines? No, that's just MAGA land. Fortunately, the rest of America is better than that.