The unnatural enjoyment of persecution complexes!

PBS Frontline showed the first of a 2 part American Experience program last night on the Mormons. Caculated, I am sure, to put paid to the candidacy of the only truly Conservative Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, it showed the Mormons in a very bad light.

In any case the historians (hired for their ability to make Mormons look especially kooky,) all point out that the Mormons, in their heyday of clashes with the US government and local townspeople, actually enjoyed and courted their own persecution. Theis reminds me of the current situation in Gaza. Palestinians and the rest of the Muslim world have created an identitiy which relies entirely on Israel as the opposition, without which the Palestinians and Muslims would have no identity whatsoever.