Reminds me of the psychological weapon called "gaslighting"....taken from the film noir classic, "Gaslight."
Charles Boyer's character was a glib con artist, murderer and thief---he ingratiated himself w/ Ingrid Bergman, and married her, in order to move into her house----a house she inherited from her murdered aunt (murdered by Boyer).
Later the term "gaslighting" became a term to describe a patterns of psychological abuse in which the victims are gradually manipulated into doubting his/her own reality---involves the perpetrator using emotional gimmicks---often acting as a "victim" so as to dupe and disorient the target experiencing abusive behavior.
The desired effect of "gaslighting" is to maintain the abuser's image as a sympathetic person, while simultaneously priming the disoriented victim to believe that he/she is to blame for the ruinous effects of the calculated mistreatment.
Liz, I get so p.o.’d whenever someone classifies all government payouts as “ENTITLEMENTS”. I am ENTITLED to the forced retirement, aka Social Security, that I have paid into. I am ENTITLED to the benefits of Medicare that I have been forced to pay into. I am ENTITLED to anything I put money into.
However, no one is ENTITLED to my money to pay for Welfare. No one is ENTITLED to my money to pay for Food Stamps. No one is ENTITLED to my money to pay for Health Care. These are all FORCED CHARITY. Taking money out of my wallet is not an ENTITLEMENT. It is theft. I am sick of them perverting the word ENTITLEMENT.
The press does it all the time. Gay has a very different meaning than when I was growing up. We should not let them take the word ENTITLEMENT without a fight. We should have politicians who would question why someone who has come illegally into this county is ENTITLED to any of the benefits I have paid into. They are not. This is forced charity, plain and simple.