“What you say is just the party line.”
Sorry, no. I’ve come to my own conclusions on this topic. You don’t need to share my opinion but my opinion was not shaped by the GOP.
And you’ve lost me on the Catholic thing. Most Europeans fled Europe to escape their class system, to obtain the opportunity to own land, and to obtain the opportunity for liberties they would never (and still haven’t) have in Europe. The Catholic/Protestant thing probably got a lot of people to leave, no doubt, but both sides killed plenty of their own and no small amount of Catholics fled Catholic oppression all the same as no small amount of Protestants fled Protestant oppression.
Point of fact: Swiss Lutherans killed far more Swiss Baptists than Swiss Catholics ever did.
I guess it is just coincidence that your conclusions match the claims of the neocon RINOs.