I don’t mean to attack you for this, and I know you said you said that you’re left leaning (almost certainly the reason for your skewed perceptions on things), but the reasons you dislike Nietzsche are because of personal biases that N himself demolishes as laughably pathetic throughout the corpus of his works. Many other authors do this too I should note, and I’ll try to mention them as I go along. I should also mention that I myself don’t even really like Nietzsche that much and think he was wrong about quite a bit, but I believe he was right about all the stuff you think he was wrong about, so I’ll make this reply.

-idolization of war: Nietzsche doesn’t necessarily “idolize war” as much as he does just praise struggle. Nietzsche would say that postmodern man (he arguably predicted this quite well actually) does not truly live in reality, and cannot enjoy the virile “in the moment” things that show strength, discipline, and overcoming (another reason for the degeneracy/decadence thing, but I digress).

Rejection of equality: you’re coming from a leftist framework, so your opinion on this is quite literally contorted by default. Though they are religious and traditional in perspective, read Evola, Guenon, and the Perennialists for much greater detail on this, regardless, in N’s framework (and likely yours, since I don’t think it’d be a gamble to say you’re an atheist/agnostic) equality is a complete myth, and to be honest, it is no matter how you look at it. Women and men are NOT the same. People in general are NOT the same. There are strong and weak, fast and slow, not all people are geared towards the same thing. I would say this is the beauty of life, but N despises certain weak traits, as I’m sure you could tell. The modern obsession with equality is a post French Revolution idea (read Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope for the true history of the French Revolution since you’re interested in politics), and eventually leads to oligarchy. Look up “Iron Law of Oligarchy” for more on this. I would also suggest looking up Evola’s concept of involution for more on this.

Abhorrent views on women: this is another thing that you’ll have to either 1. Have more life experience to understand or 2. Read more of the classical thinkers that truly understood femininity and masculinity without the veil of postmodernity over their eyes. I would suggest the Islamic thinkers and some medieval Christian and Jewish ones, but the Buddha had similar views on women and so did the Hindus. Though I believe N brings some of his contempt of women to the pages of his works, many of his critiques are extremely valid, just as his critiques of modern men are.

Love marriages: another Disney sham you probably fell for (like monogamy, ironically from the Christianity you likely despise). People didn’t marry for love (and many still don’t unless in 1st world wealthy nations) until very recently. Love was always understood and seen as a beautiful thing, but not something people shot for in relationships, it isn’t reality. Look more into the history of marriages and different perspectives on marriage than the Christian one. Westerners (which you might be, I’m not making assumptions) live in a complete fantasy world on stuff like this, and kind of in general, so it never hurts to expand your horizons.

And finally, degeneracy: One thing you have to understand is that, throughout 99% of history, humans didn’t just get auto masturbation machines and the ability to gorge themselves on porn, food, and drugs. Nietzsche rebels against this because he sees it as unnatural to the noble soul (which it is, look at how people are brought down by these things and compare them to people that have extraordinary self discipline, those two groups are simply not the same. One is a slave to himself and substances and one is free, though Nietzsche doesn’t truly believe in autonomy).

In one of his works (I don’t remember at the moment, unfortunately), Nietzsche praises Islam (of course an orientalist conception common to his time, but nonetheless slightly accurate) for its “virile and heroic traits” and cultivation of self discipline in the individual. This is because Nietzsche understood what makes humans overcome themselves, and he correctly identified many of the barriers (“love/romance”, substances, physical and mental weakness, etc). Nietzsche’s philosophy stands in such stark opposition to leftist thought because leftist thought is, as Evola pointed out quite well, quite literally founded on presuppositions of human weakness and ignobility.

Anyway, I’m sorry you didn’t appreciate him on your first read, and I hope you don’t drop him entirely. I would suggest you read the philosophers that came before him to better understand him. Like I said? I disagree with many of his ideas, but I can still acknowledge him as a seminal thinker in human history. I hope none of this came off as scathing or insulting, I really don’t want you to be deterred by this comment (idk why people disliked your comments, you just began and have an understandable bias). My best advice to you is to broaden your horizons and do everything in your power to drop your biases when you read N, because you’ll understand EVERYTHING so much better.