Posted on 11/09/2020 6:06:35 AM PST by NOBO2012
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” George Orwell
Or gaslighting.
The term gaslighting comes from Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gas Light, later made into a movie starring Ingrid Bergman, in which the wife becomes concerned about the dimming of her upstairs gas lights. Her husband – who for nefarious reasons is in fact responsible for their dimming - insists that there’s nothing to see here, she’s imagining things.
The term is used in clinical psychology generally in the context of abusive relationships but it can also be applied in the context of media. In that context media gaslighters attempt to control the information the public is exposed to in order to allow the lies and manipulations of their preferred political ideologues to go unchallenged. Censorship, suppression and disinformation are used to control the “news” environment and hence “popular opinion.” You might know the technique as propaganda. It is now and has always been popular and readily applied in authoritarian states.
Bill Whittle explained the methodology quite well back in 2014:
Our leftist gaslighters will go so far as to claim that it is the right that’s gaslighting America, not them. But I would point out that it is only the Left that mandates their “reality” – be it global warming or vote counting – be treated as true, unopen to questioning. Only the left that suppresses speech they do not agree with – that cancels any voice that dares question the “science” as they’ve defined it. Only the left that demands heretics be deemed dangerous and silenced.
So put me down as a heretic. I don’t trust the veracity of the left’s ostensible vote counting any more than I believe their “man made” global warming nonsense.
The reason Donald Trump got 70 million votes last week is because we who refuse to be gaslighted have found nobody else who is willing to stand and speak for us. The bulk of what was once the GOP is simply a simpering batch of liars and hypocrites who can’t be trusted to support what’s right and good. So even if you don’t like our President’s ineloquent manner of speech, are “embarrassed” by his Tweets, wish he were not so in-your-face pugnacious, he stands with us. And we stand with the way America was conceived, not as it’s being ‘fundamentally transformed.” Just as President Trump is all we’ve got, so too are we all he has. Demand Truth. Demand Justice. Demand the American Way. And demand a recount.
I am mad as hell and I won’t be gaslighted anymore.
Some 50 years of “liberal” education/propaganda has brought us to this point. Fighting our way out is now the only option. Welcome to the revolution.
“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell
Very good!
I see the calls to fight and I shake my head. The power is behind the election theft. It’s done. So what now?
I guess armed resistance is an option, if you don’t mind throwing your life away for absolutely no gain.
Or... turn your attention to your local school system. The indoctrination is active and ongoing. Many thought homeschooling was the answer. Nope. It made your kids capable of thought, but now your kids have to deal with masses of indoctrinated idiots.
It’s the long game, and the only game that will work. Get involved, get your like minded neighbors involved. Throw out those leftist superintendents. Supervise curriculum and tamp down indoctrination fires. It’s the only viable option, in my opinion.
Well said! Until we fix the schools the rest is just window dressing.
So you are probably a member of private industry currently -— you more than likely make a lot of money if so. Or at least more than a equivalent government worker.
Are you ready to quit that job and become a teacher? Let’s list the risks:
(1) Beaten by students.
(2) Removed by coworkers if found backing a conservative agenda.
- 2b) Possible false accusations of sexual misconduct to make sure you are removed, life ruined.
Yeah, sounds like a great deal!
No, we basically at this point have to accept that the elections will always be for show this point forward.
When the gun regulations & the blatant stealing from the middle class to support the poor start occurring (and you haven’t seen anything yet), and the rush to prosecute people defending themselves from Mob Rule, then it will be time to exit this once great country.
It is already Not Great as of this election.
Now just waiting for the “Leave Triggers” to occur.
When my high paying private industry job no longer gains me extra material advantages in this country, or my 2nd amendment rights become abridged, those will be my “Leave Triggers”.
I am expecting those triggers to be hit in the next 4 years, as Slow Joe is either removed or resigns, and Satan’s Own, Kamala Harris, comes into the picture.
“ It is now and has always been popular and readily applied in authoritarian states.”
Which are literally, and I mean literally, the only kind of “states” remaining in the world today.
Government of, by and for the people has vanished from the face of the Earth.
Well said!
“ then it will be time to exit this once great country”
I might suggest that that time is very possibly now...before you will not be allowed to exit. People say, quite reasonably, where do you go as there is nowhere that is free? And that is very true.
However, after this past week we can see there are not many that are Less Free than this country. There are not many that are different on that score - some worse, maybe some better but most are pretty much now the same.
The difference is the latent power of this newly fascist former superpower is so great that the people here will suffer far more under the massive surveillance, financial control and personal control technology than in most countries that are poor banana republics or stodgy socialists.
There is no reason to remain here, or very shortly perhaps there won’t be (depending on outcomes yet to be finalized),, and many aspects of this form of totalitarianism here that mean those remaining will suffer far more than in most other places.
“Well said! Until we fix the schools the rest is just window dressing.”
It’s not exciting, it’s not fun, but it’s the foundation.
“Are you ready to quit that job and become a teacher? Let’s list the risks:”
I’m close to retirement, so teaching wouldn’t be good for me. Nor would it be good for most of us.
But you can get on the school board, that’s where the real change happens, and it’s not that much of a sacrifice.
A conservative get on a school board in a solid blue county?
Now that’s a good one!
“A conservative get on a school board in a solid blue county?”
Yeah, if it’s solid blue, you’re done. Sometimes you gotta know the battle is lost
Most everything will be blue before its over.
Remember 11/3/2020: Elections mean NOTHING.
I am preparing so that when leave-triggers are hit, that I can get out of the tech jail cell at the drop of a hat.
There ain’t no fixing when the vote box dies. And no one can afford to actually fight the monster, we are 100% surveilled. It isn’t 1760’s, when you could move around in private between parties and build dark power, and choose when to strategically assert it.
I wouldn’t trust a single soul who contacted me at this point about building dark power. You don’t know who is a plant, and who is the real deal, who is compromised and who is not.
Nope, getting out when the curtain is beginning to fall is the best approach.
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