No one is persecuting them. Oh, yes, they are hated, despised, and disliked, but it's a warm mist of hate, drifting over the cities, the blogs, the psyches of people, lightly glancing over buildings, words, and skin -- causing no actual harm, just raising the temperature a few degrees. Like righteous indignation is wont to do.
But they actually think there are people who are out to kidnap and kill them, that people are hiding in bushes and in bathrooms, that people will surround them in parks to harass and harm them. But it's never true. No one is out to get them. Yes, many people want them gone, but they don't want them dead. Most people want them to get their just desserts, to be brought to their knees with a well-timed and very public dose of poetic justice.Maybe this isn't so hard to understand. Maybe it's an internal equation that everyone who has a vested interest in belonging to community subconsciously seeks to solve. X amount of violent thoughts and rhetoric directed against a blameless victim should cause an equally violent reaction in the community. Even Beck/Bachmann/Ailes/Xians would be aware of this compulsion for balance. A healthy, happy community, which fosters the pursuit of happiness of its members, would do its best to silence jackasses and nutbags who shriek and rail against valuable members of society for irrational and wrong-headed reasons. Maybe what they are haunted by aren't liberals bent on taking a piece out of their hides, but retribution.
Links:
Jezebel: The Time Michele Bachmann Thought She Had Been Kidnapped By Lesbians
Gawker: The Real Story Behind Glenn Beck's Hellish Outdoor Nightmare
Daily Kos: Roger Ailes, Living in Fear of Gay Violence
Study-Grow-Know: Impatient Homosexuals and Persecuted Christians
The Psychodynamics of Scapegoating
The Political Cartel Foundation: Christian Persecution Complex
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