On the other hand, while they seek a monolithic thought control, to dictate values, they remind me more of harridans cackling or gobbling while the teen aged daughters of wealthy landowners are having their heads cut off, than they suggest those actually able to organize the slaughter.
I think I have actually seen that comparison somewhere in some Historical writings... Now I remember. Some Fellow had published a book of mathematics (in the 1850s) in which he makes this very point about the Puritan Harridans imposing their will on others.
Now I wonder if I still have that tab open somewhere? Hmmm....