The term comes from the 1944 movie "Gaslight," a mystery-thriller in which a man slowly tricks and manipulates his wife into believing she is losing her mind so that he can have her certified as insane and institutionalized. In real life, gaslighting can happen in any relationship. Sometimes it's unintentional – perhaps reflecting someone's desire to deflect responsibility for a mistake or cover up something unsavory he or she is doing (like having an affair or abusing drugs). But some people engage in it intentionally and regularly – and that's when it can have an especially toxic effect. Gaslighting is "an extremely dangerous form of emotional abuse because it undermines your self-confidence," notes psychologist Craig Malkin, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and author of the book "Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists."
Liberals gaslight conservatives every day and trick us into thinking whatever happens is our fault.
More often than not, they get away with it.
Liberals gaslight conservatives every day and trick us into thinking whatever happens is our fault.
More often than not, they get away with it.
Yes, five times - THAT’S FIVE TIMES - in one weekend Susan Rice lied to me and every other American claiming it was a video - which almost no one saw - that triggered a spontaneous riot that led to the murder of four Americans in Benghazi. In reality, it was a terrorist attack and she knew it the whole time.
This morning, Victor Blackwell at CNN lead with a story about a new study that has determined that President Trump has lied 1,950 times since he took office.
Well, I didn’t even get angry. I was too busy laughing, almost spit up my coffee.
“Gaslighting” has been around forever.
But it only works on the ignorant and easily led.
CNN and their ilk have lost their credibility. They would have gone broke by now except for the built-in income they get from cable networks. That’s right, they get paid even if few are watching.
If the cable and syndicated networks didn’t have such a monopoly with sweetheart contracts all over, the CNNs, et al, would have to improve their programming.
When more streaming services that have a true pick and choose programming start to dominate, “gaslighting” and other fake news will die off to just their moron diehards.
There are several variations of gaslighting.
Sometimes we (on all sides of an issue) don’t want to face the truth. Many people vote against a candidate, not for the other candidate. Rarely does the winner have a mandate. But we want to gaslight ourselves into believing it.
Likewise, losers do not want to face the reality that they lost. So they create gaslight fantasies to explain why they really did not lose.
In sports, we blame the ref. We blame the clock. We blame the fan in the stadium who catches the foul ball the player would have caught.
We do the same in our personal lives. Many of us have a negative net worth and live paycheck to paycheck. We gaslight that because the cost of government is 43% to 47% for each of us who works hard and has to fork over our money to the government.
We do the same in politics. We gaslight Russian Collusion. We gaslight racism, nazis, that dreaded alt-Right. We also gaslight illegal aliens.
The left portrays illegals as living in the shadows, living in fear, petrified.
Some anti-illegal voices go to the other extreme that all illegals are terrible people ... just because they did not play mother-may-I with the Nanny state.
The truth is that not all illegals are the same. Extremely few live in fear...and those that do have mental problems and are no more common than mental problems in the rest of us. And although a significant minority of illegals are undesirable and should be deported because they are undesirable and cost the government big money, the majority of illegals are a benefit to society.
For example, here in inner city Atlanta many construction sites have help-wanted signs. They cannot find enough workers. They would hire any citizen able to do construction work. E.g. they would hire excons. But citizens on welfare are not taking these jobs.
And wage rate? How much is an excon with no high school and 3rd grade ability in reading and math, and no work history and no marketable skills... how much is he worth per hour?
But we gaslight and say illegals are taking jobs from citizens.
Have I gaslighted at times? Maybe. But let’s be honest about this gaslighting.
“No collusion? Of course there was collusion. There wouldn’t be an investigation if there weren’t evidence of collusion. Only a nut believes there wasn’t any collusion. Every sane person knows that.”
Gaslight Media.
About half of my bosses in the past used Gaslighting on a routine basis. Welcome to corporate America.
Do you mean like 9 years ago when Barry Soeotoro stood up in front of the greatest country on the planet and told every single one of us that we were to blame for the woes of all our countrymen and even responsible for the Arab flight away from their homelands? Told us how broke down, over extended, racist, homophobic, maniacal gun owning rednecks that we are?
You mean something like that?
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When it looked candidate Trump was the real thing and might win!
The Never Trumpsters on Free Republic went ballistic with their Gas Lighting of Candidate Trump. They posted every vile left wing and NR article that blasted candidate Trump.
Then, when we told them to knock of the Gas Lighting, they doubled down and said they were the real conservatives not Trump and not us. That was their Gas Lighting of us, the Deplorables..
Dude must have been gay, married to Ingrid Bergman and all cared about was finding some rocks.
The best thing that ever happened to my mental was being able to identify manipulation. Some people are so subtle with it that it took years before I understood what was going on.
And after I stopped being manipulated by them they hated me.
Life is good!
Had people try it on me - it never worked though
Libertarians, like Rush Limbaugh, Fox News etc., have been gaslighting “normal” Republicans into believing Free Trade is a good thing when every statistic and observation says the opposite.
The entire GloBULL Warming hoax - Left wing Gaslighting.