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The messianic fervor, the fondness of binaries (in-group/out-group, righteous/sinner, woke/fascist), boundary policing, self-righteous moral puritanism, intolerance of dissent - it's all the stuff of religion.
The problem is human beings in groups. Most of us are capable of doing terrible things if we're doing it in the name of systems of thought and morality endorsed by our in-group.
And never forget that people get off on the vilification of the dehumanized other. It makes us feel good about ourselves & it reaffirms the folkways of our ingroup and its clear moral superiority.
Yes, this is precisely it. Alas, a fix is exceptionally unlikely to be feasible.
There isn't one lesson to be derived from a knowledge of history, but if there were it would be that human beings are willing to perpetrate horrors upon each other in the name of the sanctity of their in-groups.
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