The gaslighting of America
By: Robert Knight
Today’s mainstream media along with the big tech social media and their aligned media fact checkers and gate keepers working in concert with the bi coastal secular progressive elitist left and the democrat party are the ultimate gas lighters in America and we the people and traditional America are the targets of their propaganda.
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The gaslighting of America
The word "gaslighting" has been creeping into media critiques, and for good reason. Once upon a time, the media conveyed news, albeit with a liberal slant. Now, they're into full-blown gaslighting to facilitate whatever the Left wants.
The term comes from a 1938 play by British playwright Patrick Hamilton, "Gaslight," and film adaptations, the most famous of which is a 1944 version starring Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman.
It's about a man who covers up a secret by literally making his wife believe she is insane. He uses all sorts of tricks, from weird lighting to pretending not to notice anything is wrong.
For decades, America's media elites have engaged in selective gaslighting. A prime example occurred in 1968, when CBS's Walter Cronkite and others parroted communist propaganda that Americans and South Vietnamese "lost" the Tet Offensive. In actuality, the Viet Cong were devastated despite aid from North Vietnam. But the false reports of a major American defeat morphed into a mantra that the war was unwinnable.
Today, the media commit Tet-level offenses every day. It's stunning. Often, they parrot absurd Democrat talking points. At other times, they present "settled science" that is not remotely "settled."
Here's more about gaslighting before we plunge into other examples. "Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control," according to Psychology Today.
"Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even their sanity. Over time, a gaslighter's manipulations can grow more complex and potent, making it increasingly difficult for the victim to see the truth."
This helps explain why, despite mountains of contrary evidence, so many young people have bought into the Left's lies about everything from economics to sexuality.
"Those who employ this tactic often have a personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder and psychopathy chief among them," the magazine says.
Well, that might help explain why the media are still in the grip of Trump Derangement Syndrome, the steroidal successor to Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Here are some other examples of gaslighting.
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There's no border crisis, and even if there is, Kamala Harris is "on it."
Reality : Hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have poured over the border since January. Dozens have perished. A shameless gaslighter, the Vice President boasted in El Paso that the administration has made "extreme progress over these last few months." It's extreme, all right. Related: Blaming Trump for the border disaster. -
The Jan. 6 Capitol riot was an "armed insurrection" in which five died.
Reality : No guns were found. Only one person was actually killed – unarmed Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt. The media don't care who shot her. -
Republicans want to defund the police.
Reality : Pelosi, Schumer and other top Democrats concocted this from the GOP's reluctance to back one of Biden's fiscal blowouts. Reality: The GOP has long supported the police. Democrats favor defunding police and have done so in cities now wracked by shocking crime waves. -
Democrats are "anti-crime."
Reality : Crime has been rampant in Democrat-run cities since they created the welfare culture in the 1960s and destroyed families. It's now out of control, with shootings and homicides soaring over last year's riot-enhanced totals. -
Black Lives Matter cares about black lives.
Reality : This Marxist group backs abortion of black babies and cares only about publicizing rare, cop-related cases, not the thousands killed annually by criminals. -
Six trillion dollars of spending in the Biden budget will be offset by tax increases only on "the rich."
Reality : Even if every billionaire's fortune was confiscated, it wouldn't dent the federal debt bomb. Mr. Biden wants billions to beef up the IRS so they can raid America's middle-class pocketbooks. -
Joe Biden is a "devout Catholic."
Reality : Sure, he attends church regularly but he's working overtime to increase tax-supported abortions and is weaponizing LGBTQ shock troops to turn America into a Marxist version of Sodom and Gomorrah. St. Peter, call your office. -
Men who think they are female really are female. And vice versa.
Reality : Biology doesn't lie, unlike the unscrupulous elites who gaslight confused people into believing they are the opposite sex and insist that everyone go along. Telling the truth is becoming a criminal act. Latest twist: eliminating the words "woman" or "mother" and using "pregnant person" instead. -
Voter ID laws and accurate registration lists are "racist."
Reality : Minority voting has risen sharply in jurisdictions with voter ID and other election safeguards. Saying minorities cannot manage to get IDs is racist. -
Babies in the womb are not "human beings," just tissue.
Reality : Ultrasounds that detect heartbeats as early as 16 days say otherwise, and DNA reveals the uniqueness of each human life. -
America can unilaterally prevent climate change.
Reality : Wiping out America's fossil-fuel-based energy independence is a gift to Russia, Iran and China. None of them, or our ally India, are kneecapping their own coal, gas and oil-based economies. China is building new coal-fired plants. -
China is a "partner" in the world economy.
Reality : China is a totalitarian, communist state built on mass murder and persecution of religious minorities and dissidents. Seeking world domination, it's assisted by corporations like Nike, whose CEO recently proclaimed that "we're a brand of China and for China." -
COVID-19 came from a bat in a wet market in Wuhan. Anyone who said otherwise was ridiculed.
Reality : Evidence is mounting that it came from the People's Liberation Army's bioweapons lab that makes viruses more virulent.
This is the tip of the iceberg. There's also Critical Race Theory and the politics of masks and lockdowns.
Democrats are gaslighting the nation, assisted by corrupt media. Read or watch at your own risk.
Robert Knight is a contributor to The Washington Times. His latest book is " The Coming Communist Wave: What Happens If the Left Captures All Three Branches of Government ". A version of this column ran originally in The Washington Times .
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My compliments to Robert Knight. I'm sure somebody will show up with a smear job rather than a valid argument to counter what Mr Knight accurately related. What is breathtaking is that the American left has becomes so powerful in this nation that they were able to openly lie to us every day and divide us the way they have. I suppose we can blame 50 years of indoctrination at our universities for so many brainwashed degenerates..
He is really on target about this!
'Mr' Knight seems to have left out Trump's gaslighting praise of China.
Sounds vague, I can narrow your indoctrination to precisely October 7, 1996.
Repeating idiocy only serves to confirm it. Your seed's author is gaslighting you with fear and from what I can see from his site he has a small audience ... all of his 'books' are on sale at cost.
China building coal fired power plants is idiocy?
China being a totalitarian communist regime is idiocy?
that it was listed as genocidal vs a religious minority is idiocy?
that there is increasing evidence of China virus leaking from a lab there is idiocy?
not!
Why don't you go look up all the nice things your hero Trump has said about China.
Opinions do tend to vary .... greatly in this case.
You mean when he was negotiating a more favorable to America trade deal with them before the extent of the Chinese caused pandemic was fully realized? Talk about gas lighting a subject!
Exposing liberals gaslighting is itself gas lighting with gear? Is that all you got here?
I thought there were some guns (and some pipe bombs and molotov cocktails) found in vehicles nearby, but no guns were found on the people who stormed into the Capital..
No one who was in the capitol building had a gun. It’s odd that if this was an insurrection the few who had weapons left their concealed carry weapons in their cars.
What?
No guns? No frozen water bottles or bricks? No bike locks or skateboards. No explosive fireworks? No cement milkshakes? No spray bottles full of bleach and urine. Etc, etc
Man .... these alleged insurrectionists really don't know how to riot, loot or insurrect do they? They should get some lessons from blm or antifa if they really want to excel.
That is the bottom line. And they expect us to take the blame for 1-6-21 that they won’t take for all the damage they caused 5-26-20 to present.
This is an interesting lie.
Videos Show How Rioter Was Trampled in Stampede at Capitol
Rosanne Boyland, a 34-year-old Trump supporter from Georgia who died during the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, appears to have been killed in a crush of fellow rioters during their attempt to . ..
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This woman, Roseanne Boyland was trampled to death by the mob that was in a frenzy to enter the Capitol Building. She grew exhausted by the melee and crumpled to the ground where her compatriots trampled her to death. What a way to go. I wonder if in her last breaths she felt like a martyr.
Sniff ... um ... the entire article is assgas lighting. Careful you don't blow yourself up.
Your comment is Bull Shit.
It's for our readers.
Have a good day.
As is your seed voteup.
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The article is 100% correct about each and every single point it made.
Exactly. The article nailed their political side to the wall and they don’t like their exposure to the light of day.
The article exposes actual gas lighting.
... actually it once again exposes your one-way vision.
As opposed to your “ enlightened” vision?
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Its funny, I have people here tell me almost every day that all I ever do is seed about Trump, even though I have literally made thousands of seeds on this forum that are not about Trump, and rarely the comments made to me about how all I ever do is seed about Trump are deleted.
One comment about what XX seeds about with both of his two allotted seeds a day 365 days a year, and its gone a few minutes later.
My seed here has very little to do with Trump. Why are you derailing my seed and making me the issue instead of democrat/ gaslighting on the issues?
What? You think it is OK for you to derail and make others you dislike the issue in everyone else's seed/article, but, you can't stand it when the shoe is on the other foot.
If you can't take it, don't dish it out. And if you are going to dish it, then be man enough to take it.