05/04/2023
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Brain Saving Americans and protecting our constitutional rights are all the same fight—a fight against "gaslighting".
Its origins are colorful: the term comes from the title of a 1938 play and the movie based on that play, the plot of which involves a man attempting to make his wife believe that she is going insane. .According to Mariam Webster The Word of the Year 2022 was 'Gaslighting,' who now explains
"mysterious activities in the attic cause the house’s gas lights to dim, but he insists to his wife that the lights are not dimming and that she can’t trust her own eyes.
When gaslighting was first used in the mid 20th century it referred to a kind of deception like that in the movie. We define this use as:
: psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one's emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator
But in recent years, we have seen the meaning of gaslighting refer also to something simpler and broader: “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for a personal advantage.” In this use, the word is at home with other terms relating to modern forms of deception and manipulation, such as fake news, deepfake, and artificial intelligence.
"Typically, gaslighting is a tactic used by powerful individuals with narcissistic tendencies who seek to manipulate another person into their control. In this age of misinformation—of “fake news,” conspiracy theories, Twitter trolls, and deepfakes—gaslighting has emerged as a word for our time.
A driver of disorientation and mistrust, gaslighting is “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especially for one’s own advantage.” 2022 saw a 1740% increase in lookups for gaslighting, with high interest throughout the year.
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A one-way ticket to Gilead comes down to the basis of multiple lies so outlandish they constitute gaslighting — an attack on public sanity, the taken-for-granted foundation on which self-governance depends.
Gaslighting (Democ°rats) News seeks to deceive you about everything—your sense of reality, your own sanity, your fundamental knowledge of who you are stands against the truth including the constitutional rights to access and communicate it
The official definition for "gaslighting," according to Merriam-Webster, is the psychological manipulation of a person, usually over an extended period of time, that "causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories and typically leads to confusion, loss of confidence and self-esteem, uncertainty of one’s emotional or mental stability, and a dependency on the perpetrator.".
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It means downright deceitful. Manipulating. Misleading.
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Gaslighting involves two parties; the "gaslighter" (i.e. law enforcement in blue states ) who persistently puts forth a false narrative, and the "gaslighted", (i.e. the accused) struggling to maintain their individual autonomy.
Gaslighting is typically effective only when there is an unequal power dynamic or when the gaslighted must maintain a level of respect for the gaslighter. ---To “gaslight” someone is to manipulate them into questioning their own perception of reality. ---- If this sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because it should — political gaslighting is fast becoming the defining feature of our times.
The process of political gaslighting makes use of certain techniques. “[It] utilizes deceptive and manipulative use of information with the motivation to destabilize and disorient public opinion on political issues,” Farah Latif, a communications expert from George Washington University in the U.S., noted in a paper.
In reality, this translates as creating false, alternate narratives not based in reality; calling them irrational or undermining their sanity for questioning the gaslighter’s narrative; covering up lies to make them sound convincing, and so on. Gaslighting makes use of words and power — two things that feed off inequality. Latif adds that political gaslighting becomes a strategy to “garner support for or against an ideology, viewpoint, or policy.” (See Trump Indicted News)
Political gaslighting may not always be called by this name. (i.e downplaying administration’s wrongs, discrediting victims, or opponents (the accused) by encouraging deliberate misinformation, and diverting attention from all relevant news or facts are all markers.
Notably, when the government says no one died in the last months due to an oxygen shortage, despite multiple first-hand accounts, the line between fact and fiction becomes too thin to see
To “gaslight” someone is to manipulate them into questioning their perception of reality. If this sounds vaguely familiar, it’s because it is,
"political" gaslighting is fast becoming the defining feature of our times. The process of political gaslighting makes use of certain techniques. “[It] utilizes deceptive and manipulative use of information with the motivation to destabilize and disorient public opinion on political issues,” Farah Latif, a communications expert from George Washington University in the U.S., noted in a paper.
In reality, this translates as creating false, alternate narratives not based in reality; calling them irrational or undermining their sanity for questioning the gaslighter’s narrative; covering up lies to make them sound convincing, and so on. Gaslighting makes use of words and power — two things that feed off inequality. Latif adds that political gaslighting becomes a strategy to “garner support for or against an ideology, viewpoint, or policy.”
The result of this manipulation is pointed. Being gaslit on a mass level undermines the public’s capacity to think about policy in the long and short-term (and their ability to have a say in it), distorts truth and reality, and creates a sense of distrust among the public. The idea of gaslighting is mostly discussed with respect to intimate partner relationships or family dynamics; but in a political sphere, experts note its impact on mass paranoia, confusion, pain, and uncertainty.
Again, Political gaslighting may not always be called by this name. --- (I.e."Dungeons and Dragons) What happens when individuals do this to more than one person?
What if the grand vision of control is directed towards a whole nation?
According to Latif, there are two distinct victims of political gaslighting: the gaslit (those who are successfully manipulated), by those who hold opposing views like Democrats posing as Tribal (Media) trying to silence the latter.
The first, controlled, and carefully planned instances of political gaslighting were seen in N**i Germany, in which dissidents were toyed with in many ways — including the sending and receiving of fake letters attributed to them.
For example, a similar technique — with a slight modification of letters on laptops tricks another into believing they're showing up to represent the (Union) United States of America and getting slaughtered by confederates disguised as the Union {See} -- The Outlaw Josey Wales)
The techniques used by the Confederacy was used to stoke communal fires and overwrite history; leading to alternative narratives about ourselves as a people.
Further, the pandemic saw an alarming rise in political gaslighting — with leaders worldwide calling Covid19 a “conspiracy,” saying there is no vaccine shortage when there is, among other manipulations downplaying the severity of the situation. These abstract statements naturally have devastating consequences for people who have suffered during a crisis.
In India, the government’s claimes about the pandemic — pointing at communal bogey to divert attention from the real causes, claiming premature victory during a crisis or war ---defying behavior. If the pandemic has shown us anything about politics, it is that political gaslighting is not just rhetoric — it is deadly.
Researchers have also distinguished between overt, and covert political gaslighting.
The former happens when a speaker explicitly peddles demonstrably false information while presumably being aware of the falsity ( countering public memory about an event (police shootings, tribal history, 9/11, Trumps Indicted, witnessed in real-time or misrepresenting reality through denying public experience)The latter happens when the speaker makes ambiguous statements that cannot be conclusively refuted.
Examples of covert political gaslighting include shedding crocodile tears about purported (i.e school violence, s*x or drug crime or even better "the trail of tears ) misrepresenting one’s own beliefs (by politicizing the events through the distribution of supplies yet denouncing the same)
emotional manipulation, or any instance where the audience cannot access the truth.
A litmus test for identifying political gaslighting, therefore, is that at all times, the audience always has a reasonable basis to doubt the claims made by the gaslighter.
The impact of social media, each such instance is chilling as a whole. If we consider a nation’s electorate as a single unit, the distortion of reality leads to a public cognitive breakdown in terms of what the truth means, what facts are real, which ones are “propaganda,” and who is victimizing whom.
The book “Gaslighting America" didnt note much about "Democrats" like U.S. President Joe Biden, the Confederacy, or Tribal Leaders/media, manipulating American voters into questioning their own histories, doubting established scientific facts, undermining devastating crises, and drawing on s*xist, racist stereotypes, among many other classic gaslighting tactics.
Researcher Alex G. Sinha, in an article published in the Buffalo Law Review, identifies political gaslighting not by the gaslighter’s intentions — but by the effect their manipulations have on the public; the effects include triggering doubts about public recollections of “settled matters of historical fact.” see McGirt
These effects are magnified by the power asymmetry that exists between the speaker and the audience — the greater the asymmetry, the more destabilizing the effects. “When confusion, diversion, distraction, and disinformation are ramped up so they become an omnipresent pollutant of public debate, we may end up losing faith in the very possibility of truthful discussion – or in our own views,” wrote Stephan Lewandowsky, a professor of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bristol, U.K.
The subversion of reality and twisting of facts on a mass scale make it difficult for citizens to agree on what the truth is. If denying the reality of the scale of death, what caused it, misleading the public about management, and emphasizing a “positive” outlook on an unfathomable tragedy seems like a familiar form of political gaslighting — it’s because it is...
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