Be cautious with people denigrating "the Enlightenment" to advance some political project (which is invariably Woke, Left or Right). It refers to several things, not all of which agree.
America is based on Scottish Common Sense Realism, not French or German Idealism. 🇺🇸
America is based on Scottish Common Sense Realism, not French or German Idealism. 🇺🇸
https://twitter.com/Ne_pas_couvrir/status/1836060043994611898
The post-liberty Right ("Woke Right") tend to talk trash on the Englightenment in a sloppy way so they can attack American Classical Liberalism instead of conserving it. This error is only forgiveable at first. By now, the big players MUST know better because it's been clarified.
It's certainly the case that Communism arises out of the Neoplatonist/Idealist German and French Enlightenment, but American Classical Liberalism, which opposes these and always has, comes from somewhere else, despite some overlaps at the beginning, namely Common Sense Realism.
People who continue to push their politics by conflating these extremely different programs with completely different metaphysical commitments (Realism vs Idealism, for one) are hardly more than dangerous charlatans at this point, because it's been explained clearly.
Beware anyone who says American Classical Liberalism is the problem, especially if they blame the Enlightenment, Rousseau, or any German philosophers, and challenge them to explain how Scottish Common Sense Realism is different at the most fundamental levels.
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