My brother-in-law,and me, estranged in a strange land.

My wife talked to her brother a few days ago.  Retired with a few acres of farmland in central Kansas.  He said how sad he was at losing so many friends.  They shun him more and more, and he them.  He tells an example, recent early morning cafe talk with the small town locals as one after another ranted Obama should be impeached for the illegal bombing of Lybia.  He pointed out Reagan did the same, and in fact attempted to take out Quadaffe duck.  Some set in silence, but some said he was nuts that Reagan never did any such thing, they said they couldn't remember that, or pretended not to, he was really stunned at how nasty they got about his bringing up facts, he said he was really depressed by the encounter, couldn't understand why his friends react this way.
A few days after Congresswoman Gifford was shot in Arizona a business friend called, he often ranted that democrats in the house and senate should be marched outside and shot in the head on the Capital steps if they failed to convert on the spot, and loved to silence meetings asking who will shoot Obama?  When he called I ask him if he was happy about the shooting, oh no he said that was bad, but I said it's what you have wanted, oh no not me, he denied it for a while, finally he said well it shouldn't have happened like that and she was the wrong target.  Since then he rarely calls and we never lunch, business conversations are a bit curt.
Do these guys persecute us for their sins?
Well, the brother-in-law said he would like to move to another state, maybe people are not so hostile, I feel the same way these days, can't wait to retire and leave, which makes me wonder, are we going to become enclaves of like minded people, political segregation?