>Protestantism separates reason from faith
>It led to fideism and rationalism
>The latter basically destroys christianity and degeneracy follows
>Hobbes comes up with the absolutistic Leviathan concept
>Citizenry is seen as a contradiction of the State because their personal views are seen as a potential source of a conflict
>People are supposed to shut up and abandon freedom and interest in what's public, and to keep opinions to themselves (non-judgementalism), especially religious belief, so that an army of professional bureaucrats and state elite will provide order and peace
>People become alienated from politics and they turn instead to trade, theatre, academy, science
>Suddenly politics becomes separated from morality, because there's this professional state elite and the citizenry who follows private morality
>This creates the public opinion in Europe
>Because of politics-morality opposition public opinion has a problem with making politically reasonable statements
>They become socially dominant and they shift their private/public opinion language into politics
>And here are the roots of the utopian "Refugees are welcome here"
Political decisions are much more complex than private ones, but people of the West have lost the ability to understand this