Deny or Die

Deny or Die - the mantra of extreme policies and beliefs. This has been a central thread for religious and political conformity for centuries. The list is long. Let's list a few, just in Europe and the Americas.

a. Bolsheviks to Czarists (and everybody else for that matter) Russia, 20th century
b. Lutherans to Catholics, Germany, 16th century
c. Catholics to reformers, Southern Europe mostly, 16-18th centuries
d. Catholics to Muslims, Spain, 11-17th centuries
e. Muslims and Catholics to Jews, Europe and the Mediterranean region, 12-20th centuries
f. Protestants to everybody else, USA, 16-19 centuries
g. Catholics to impure Catholics, Spain and elsewhere, the Inquisition

Denial meant death. 

All are forms of identity exclusion.  Add up all the deaths from just this short list comes to a staggering total.

In particular, it seems that Dems have outlawed religion among its rank and file. It is interesting that Dems, the self-declared party of inclusion, have decided they have a corner and abject demands on beliefs of its members. As a method of purification, it is not dissimilar to ethnic cleansing. It spells doom eventually, but a lot of suffering in the interim.

Equally interesting are the Reps, who have now embraced the working-class Americans above their formerly preferred identity interests.  So, what happened to them?

Analogically, this is similar to those rare events where the earth changes it magnetic polarity.  Historians will have much to report in about a half-century.