And then today, we have some who still persist in darkness and eschew enlightenment.
America was founded by the enlightened to the chagrin of their darkness dwelling peers
The Enlightenment is PRECISELY what led to this darkness. Or have you forgotten just how big of a role Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, and Sade played in the Jacobins’ actions, and ultimately in Karl Marx’s creation of Marxism, and Antonio Gramsci’s creation of Cultural Marxism, and all of that?