January 28, 2017 By: El Jefe Category: Trump
Gaslighting, a technique used to manipulate people by making them question their own judgement, is the prime tool being used by Cheeto Jesus and his Merry Band of Bigots now infesting the White House and spreading the cancer of hate throughout the US government. Â Psychology today has published a guide to recognizing it and protecting yourself from it.
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Ouch! Psychology today? Really? Not much of a fan of it. I do recall the old film with Bergman and Boyer. He had an easy time of translating the world for her inasmuch as she did not get out much or have a retinue of friends, etc. An educated woman would have been her own lifesaver but this story depended on some guy to do the deed. This works like a charm however on people who are already insecure and in some way, large or small, isolated. No decent daily newspaper, perhaps even no phone of any sort, no multi-channel TV and the nearest neighbor is too far away and also in the same predicament. Moreover, lack of a good solid education, K through 12 with, hopefully, science classes. Such folks usually don’t even have access to a public library, even if there is one in existence. And, yuppers, there are still men around who dictate the lives of women – what they can do every day, where they can and cannot go, what they read, who they have as friends, etc. Trump really isn’t that much of a gaslighter. He lacks the talent of Boyer. After watching him for about a week int he WH, he is more and more like Nixon (also a media hater) on meth.
1Gaslighting may not describe Donnie’s tactics perfectly or completely, but the article does illustrate some aspects of them pretty well. A Politico magazine story from a Hillary aide points out similar things in a different context. From all that I’ve read, if I had to boil down everything I think I’ve learned to a single, overarching strategy of Donnie’s (which is dangerously simplistic), I’d have to say that there always has to be a crisis or a scandal. Something shiny, preferably blindingly so. Anyhoo, since still notsa much with the whole link posting thing, the title of this story is “5 New Rules From the Trump Scandal Playbook”. Google brings it right up.
2maggie, gaslighting works on isolated people, but they don’t have to be physically isolated or cut off from information. It works just fine if they cut themselves off by believing one source of information that tells them all the other sources are lamestream and lying.
And Donnie does need constant crises so he can yell, “Only I can save you! I’m smarter than all the generals! Look at those scary monsters over there! We’ve got to build a wall, we’ve got to keep them from coming in, and only I can save you!”
Which is the signal for the sane and undeluded among us, the ones who see the little twerp behind the magic Oz curtain, to stand up and shout “BULL****!” as loudly and as often as necessary.
3like—replacing Obamacare with—-TrumpNocare
4Or is that Trump don’t care. What the hell its all the same right?
You may not be impressed by the source, but the points they make are sound. I am a reasonably intelligent person who was married to an emotional abuser week use these techniques on me.
5Rhea, I agree. Personality plays a big part. So does individual psychological development.
6P.P., over at headsuptheblog.blogspot.com (by Fred Vultee at Wayne State University), there’s some possibility that the Donald’s fixation on things like crowd size is exactly to distract us from the horrible stuff he’s doing more or less behind our backs (although the Fox guy who brings this up thinks DT is just wonderful). Warped either way…
7Of course he’s distracting us; it works.
How many of us would actually go out to buy the NY Times or any of the other newspapers that cost $1.00 per edition, daily, in order to get SOME semblance of real reporting?
Then you have to remember that most newspapers are run by large-scale media corporations who usually have practically incestuous relationships with the people who are the focus of most of the political and financial shenanigans. Of course there will not be disinterested reporting.
As long as we have the internet we can at least go trawling for the truth, and try to get enough information to pick the flyspecks out of the pepper.
At least until the PTB cut that off too.
8There’s a posting on Daily KOS about Hair Drumpf having classic Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD)
9http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/26/1625715/-Here-s-what-s-psychologically-wrong-with-Donald-Trump
Thank you, Psychology Today. Now how about a follow-up piece on “gas-bagging”. They’re good at that, too.
10Orange Toddler gaslights his gullible followers when he tells them to believe only him. Everyone else is lying unless he says they’re not.
Gaslight ingredients is extremely psychologically abusive and common. As Mary Lynne Foster said, abusive men do it all the time, teaching their SO that she is dumb, incapable of surviving by herself, to blame for his behavior, etc. Perps do the same thing to their children. Molesters especially tell the child it is her fault, she wanted it, seduced him, etc.
Gaslighting is really insidious and dangerous. snacilbupeR leader types like Dickhead Armey, Rush Limpballs, Grubby Norquist, etc., have been gaslighting the right for decades and this election was the tipping point.
11Trump/Bannon Pence/O’Donnell/Ryan may be the latest to use gaslighting tactics but they’re certainly not the first — not even the first in this nation — or this decade.
The snacilbupeR have been doing it for some time now.
Remember O’Donnell bragging that his Number 1 priority was to make Obama a one-term president while, at the same time trying to convince us he was on our side? How did that work out for him? Or Ryan trying to tell us that it’s in our own best interests if Social Security and Medicare are handed over to the tender mercies of the marketplace?
Certainly, gaslighting on a national scale IS possible. Look at 1930’s Germany. But that took more than 4 years to pull off. And Germany is not nearly as large a country as the US.
We’re not completely safe — not by a long shot. But neither are we as vulnerable as we would be if we were each isolated in our own bubble — nor as we would be if we didn’t have our history to back us up.
The long-term FOX viewers and Rush and Beck listeners who voluntarily entered such bubbles years ago are the most vulnerable among us. Those who haven’t given in by now are probably fairly safe. Especially those of us who frequent Texas Beauty Salons and suchlike.
12What is the difference between encryption and locking
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