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Gaslighting The All American Pastime

Gaslighting, The All American Pastime

Junious Ricardo Stanton

Several years ago the word gaslighting was added to the American popular lexicon. Gaslighting is defined as: psychological control and abuse, manipulating someone into questioning their own perception of reality, deception of one's memory, perception of reality, or mental stability. It derives from a 1944 motion picture titled Gaslight whereby an unfaithful husband attempts to psychologically manipulate his wife into thinking she’s crazy, that what she suspects and knows are not true. The term became popular in the first decade of the twenty-first century and was word of the year in 2022.

Currently the word is used as both a noun and verb. Sample synonyms for gaslighting are: crazy-making, mind games, head games, deceiving, hoodwinking, tricking, bamboozling, scamming and many others. In the US today gaslighting is a national pastime which is why the word has gained so much use and popularity. Gaslighting is ingrained in the country’s ethos, the psychological and behavior patterns of this nation. All too often we are actively gaslit by our friends, our lovers, our family and on collective and societal levels by the media, the government both visible and shadow, corporations and the elites who weld power and influence over us.

Often while we are being gaslit, we intuitively know something is wrong, something is amiss we have a gut feeling our experiences, our memories and worldview are being tested and stressed. Actually we are being gaslit, psychologically manipulated, lied to and duped all day all the time all year long. Often while we are being gaslit our minds actively resist and we are able to tap into an inner resolve using our experiences or our sense that something is amiss to give us the strength to persevere, not succumb to the lies, tricks and manipulation. During times like those we are resolute and we refuse to fall for the okey-doke.

But at other times fear, self-doubt and the effectiveness of the gaslighters’ disingenuousness and cunning overcomes our inclination towards self-confidence and truth. Our adversaries are not only ruthlessly knavish and conniving, they own and have omnipresent access to powerful technologies such as print media, social media and the legacy media that repeat their message over and over twenty-four hours a day on countless platforms. These miscreants are able to embed their subliminal and overt messages in everything: print and electronic media as well as our SMART devices.

SMART is an acronym it stands for Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology, This is twenty four hour three sixty five surveillance, tracking and data harvesting. These devices can create an alternative narrative or reality and because we are in an uncritical state when we use these devices the messages sink in and impact not only our thoughts but our actions, responses and behaviors as well.

On a far more insidious level the government uses its enforcement power to coerce us in collusion with the corporations to do what they want us to do, to acquiesce to their policies and programs. For the past four years we’ve been living in this type of dystopian hellscape whereby the powers that shouldn’t be imposed cockeyed mandates, such as social isolation and quarantine of healthy people, mandatory distancing, nation wide lock-downs that arbitrarily shuttered businesses, ruined careers, imposed economic hardship on countless people and so disrupted our normal patterns and pace of living massive social, emotional and psychological breakdowns have occurred! These breakdowns and trauma if unresolved with remain with us adversely impacting us for years, generations even!

The good news is breakthroughs are happening. The so called COVID remediation policies are being exposed as a massive gaslighting campaign; whereby all Big Pharma propaganda, selected scientists and mathematicians’ unverified far fetched projections and billionaire elites’ narratives about a bogus “novel coronavirus” that were foisted upon us twenty-four seven three sixty-five for four years straight are now being openly challenged and repudiated. Where before legitimate treatment options and previously used pandemic remediation modalities were suppressed, censored and forbidden, they are now being vendicated.

Any skepticism or honest inquiries, questioning or critique of the “official narratives” were demonized, people were threatened with loss of their licenses, jobs, the destruction of their reputations and the government used its enforcement powers to frighten and mandate people into taking untested, toxic injections that now have been proven to be dangerously toxic and deadly. The tide is turning, the gaslighting is being rejected.

More peer reviewed studies are coming out in countries around the world exposing the deadliness of these injections. There are studies from Italy and Germany showing the COVID shots are directly related to the surge in all cause deaths, that the COVID “vaccines” had no beneficial effects and they have increased the mortality rate. You can find these reports at www.childrenshealthdefense.org and www.armstronceconomic.com.

The tide is turning but we must resist the ubiquitous gaslighting not just about COVID but everything: the economy, the wars, the environment, everything! We combat gaslighting by trusting ourselves, having faith in our intuition, having confidence seeing our experiences as teachers, lessons and guides to living, doing research to reinforce and buttress our reality while being open to new ideas. Never let anyone negate your experiences good or bad.

Gaslighting is ubiquitous but we can resist and overcome this insidious practice.

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posted by Junious Ricardo Stanton @ 1:22 PM