Why Does Atheism and Left-Wing Politics Usually Go Together?

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Why are most atheists hard-core leftists who want to turn our nation into a European nanny state?

Atheists claim to be "free thinkers" and yet they fight for more and more control of every aspect of our lives until there is no freedom left for any of us.

Kind of a contradiction if you ask me.

I don't think they do, as a matter of fact I believe that atheists can be even better nationalists in many cases.
Atheism does not really force you to think of the world in "international" like the communist/leftist thought of brotherhood between nations, that is aimed to destroy nations and bring about a single, unified nation of man.
On the other hand, many world religions today adhere to that principle. They are more leftist in my eyes than the next atheist. Of course the people here might adhere to leftism as a political ideal, but most people who adhere to world religions have "leftism" as their religion.

Like Gökbilge Hüseyin Nihal Atsız once said: "They say that Islam does not differenciate between nations, languages and peoples. Neither does communism." as to show the similarities between the left-wingers and more hardcore adherents of world religions.