Back in 2022, I wrote a commentary about gaslighting; in it I wrote, “Gaslighting is a power play, a way for one person or group to gain and maintain power over others. In the United States, we are gaslighted on a daily basis by individuals and institutions such as religions, our education systems, the mass media, and politicians. There are numerous ways, means, and techniques–devious people use to control, disorient, and disarm people they want to have power over.
One technique is to tell blatant lies and then make you think you are insane for questioning or disbelieving them. The ruling class and their minions lie to us daily. When the ruling class decides (they are not a monolithic group, but they do cooperate to accomplish their goals) they want to bum rush a country and steal their natural resources–they demonize that nation’s leader to gain public acquiescence and consent for their actions.”
Well, here we are in 2023, and the gaslighting continues even more so. The same forces, cabal and megalomaniacs, are hard at work trying to pursue their nefarious agendas, which include menticide, global depopulation, and the intended reconfiguring of the current world order into a dystopian hellscape that makes the most gruesome science fiction horror stories look tame by comparison.
To get us to go for their okey-doke they use the media they own and control to tout their schemes as “progressive” and “beneficial,” or they lie and tell us they are needed to confront and solve pressing problems like a “war on terror” a public health crisis or climate change. It’s all lies and gaslighting.
Gaslighting is manipulation, pure and simple. It is a form of menticide designed to control people’s perceptions of reality and to influence our behaviors, to get us to do what the plutocrats want us to do. “Gaslighting is a political strategy that utilizes deceptive and manipulative use of information, which destabilizes and disorients public opinion on political issues concerning the public. Several types of discourse and actions may constitute political gaslighting, such as lying, hypocrisy, misleading by mischaracterizing or rejecting facts, use of logical fallacies, and minimizing or deliberate silence on the seriousness of issues that are important to constituents of a politician…” Political Gaslighting In The Climate Change Discourse Surrounding the 2016 Election from the book President Trump’s First Term published by Purdue University Press
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/j.ctvh9w11h.8.pdf?re- freqid=excelsior%3A74780ed04c85e071fedbe8410a40 47c8
“Gaslighting involves manipulation of information. Information may comprise truth, half-truths, denial, minimization, lies, concealment, falsification, exaggerations, and dismissiveness. The manipulation of information by the gaslighter may be expressed as scorn, for example, expressing anger or sadness about information, which may compel the gaslightee to avoid accessing or sharing information; marginalization, for example, the gaslighter may put down the opinions that the gaslightee expresses or ignores their opinions that they find undesirable; and isolation, …
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