If Donald Trump can undercut America’s trust in all media, he then starts to own them and can start to literally implant his own version of reality. Then you begin to substitute your own news, your own version of reality. It tells them to go ahead and hate this person who is delivering bad news. He added: “You come in and undercut their trust in the established sources of information. By definition they don’t know what to do.” If you make people confused, they are vulnerable.
Said Welch: “The very state of confusion they are creating is a political weapon in and of itself.
Psychologist Bryant Welch, who wrote a 2008 book entitled State of Confusion: Political Manipulation and the Assault on the American Mind, told NBC News that President Donald Trump uses the tactic regularly with the American people. It is done slowly, so the victim doesn’t realize how much they’ve been brainwashed.” It can take place in any kind of relationship but often involves an imbalance of power. Anyone is susceptible to gaslighting, and it is a common technique of abusers, dictators, narcissists, and cult leaders. Gaslighting is a type of abuse that causes someone to doubt their perceptions or sanity. Psychology Today: “It works much better than you may think. The term “gaslighting” comes from a 1938 play, and subsequent 1944 film adaptation, in which a murdering husband manipulates and confuses his wife by dimming the gas lights in their home and then denying it’s happening. The tactic relies on persistent denial, contradiction and lying in an attempt to delegitimize the victim’s belief.
It makes them question their own memory, perception and sanity. Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or group.
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