(1) We want to speak about GASLIGHTING. To our knowledge - it's never been so prevalent and successfully duped so many. Gaslighting is a crucial tool used by many abusive personalities. It is lying to someone in a way that adds doubt to their own perception of reality. Examples:
(2) Examples of gaslighting are: "It never happened that way."-OR- "What you are seeing and hearing is not what is happening." People who gaslight say that something happened which didn't, and then they deny having said that.
It's a form of emotional abuse. It's designed to -
It's a form of emotional abuse. It's designed to -
(3) Gaslighting is designed to confuse somebody and obfuscate the truth. A person who is successfully "gaslit" is easier to coerce. In the Trumpian world we live in, we have a severe level of gaslighting, made more severe by the enablers who reinforce the false message - AND by -
(4) Gaslighting is so effective in Trumpland not only because he has so many enablers (the largest of which is Fox) but because his target audience is intrinsically susceptible to it, through their anger, prejudice, and disenfranchisement - to name 3.
