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What Gaslighting Is

Today a word we are hearing very often, one that I never heard as I grew up, is “gaslighting.” As I looked to see if I had ever used the word in any of the written material of this blog site, I found none.  People use the term all the time and in a popular manner, but it has a psychological meaning. Psychology Today defined it:

Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. 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.

I see and hear gaslighting all the time from the political left. It includes a blatant form of lying, that requires people to believe something demonstrably untrue.

Merriam-Webster named “gaslighting” its word of the year for 2023 because it  said it was a pervasive term that shaped interactions and was relevant to our current social climate. The dictionary defines gaslighting as “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone, especially for one’s own advantage.”  In the previous year of 2022, lookups for the word “gaslighting” occurred 1740% more than the previous year according to Merriam-Webster online.

If I were to sum up the concept of gaslighting in the clearest way possible, it is that gaslighting requires obedience to a lie.  It’s not just lying, but requiring obedience to that lie.  It says something different happened than what many, witnesses, even every witness, plainly see.  Nevertheless, you must stand and nod your head “yes” to the gaslighter or face some form of retribution.

Examples and History of Gaslighting

The entire left gaslit the country on the condition of President Biden. Now it again gaslights the whole United States by giving a particular false impression about Vice President Harris. The left did this in 2016 with the Russian collusion hoax, saying that then President Trump was a Russian agent. For decades the so-called scientific community gaslit everyone with the theory of evolution, that then turned into the science of evolution, even though it isn’t scientific. Egalitarianism, that men and women are equal in authority and that they can fulfill each other’s roles, is also gaslighting.

Apparently the word “gaslight” arose from a 1938 British play, called “Gaslight.” Someone wrote the plot:

Set among London’s elite during the Victorian era, it portrays a seemingly genteel husband using lies and manipulation to isolate his heiress wife and persuade her that she is mentally unwell so that he can steal from her.

In scripture, the Pharisees gaslit the entire nation Israel with their teaching, leaving the people of Israel wallowing in spiritual darkness.  The level of deceit in the world today, I would assess, is at an all time high with maybe the exception of the days of Noah.  Everywhere you look, those in positions of authority spread bold-faced lies about the most important subjects.

A Challenge

It’s easy today for professing Christians to concern themselves deeply with government and elections, but the biggest ongoing gaslighting occurs concerning the Bible.  False religion and false teachers gaslight billions with falsehoods and lies.

Even though Satan wants to destroy the Bible, a part of that larger strategy is destroying the truth itself.  The gaslighting everywhere results in deceit on a mass scale.  Men become apathetic toward the truth in this world scale flurry of lies.  People give up, cutting through the lies seeming not to be worth the effort.  They see the sheer difficulty of penetrating the fog of deceit as a legitimate excuse to hedge against future judgment.  No one could be accountable to believe with so many lies everywhere.  And yet that too is a lie, even a bigger one.

Gaslighting right now happens at epic proportions.  It’s as if the gaslighters are attempting to top one another with the sheer audacity.  It is a high level of disrespect to the targets or audience of the gaslighting, that they think that it will work at this scale.  They have good reason to think they’ll fool people, because it’s working.

Is the Post-Birth Abortion Claim a Lie?

Presidential Debate Point

One talking point after the debate between President Biden and President Trump was Trump lied every time he spoke.  Almost every Biden surrogate used this talking point and I believe it got some leverage afterwards, despite the historically bad performance by President Biden.  The most referred “lie” by the pundits after the debate was Trump’s claim that Democrats even supported abortion after birth.  Again and again they talked about that as a lie.

The Democrat support of also murdering babies born alive after botched abortions is a true and real thing.  It would be worth reading former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy’s piece in 2008 at the National Review.  You should read the whole article.  McCarthy produced this following quote (a transcript) from then state Senator Obama, who voted against a bill to save those babies (italics provided by author in same way as original article):

Illinois State Senator Obama

SENATOR OBAMA: Let me just go to the bill, very quickly. Essentially, I think as — as this emerged during debate and during committee, the only plausible rationale, to my mind, for this legislation would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor, the attending physician, who has made an assessment that this is a nonviable fetus and that, let’s say for the purpose of the mother’s health, is being — that — that — labor is being induced, that that physician

(a) is going to make the wrong assessment and (b) if the physician discovered, after the labor had been induced, that, in fact, he made an error, or she made an error, and, in fact, that this was not a nonviable fetus but, in fact, a live child, that that physician, of his own accord or her own accord, would not try to exercise the sort of medical measures and practices that would be involved in saving that child.

Obama Continued

State Senator Obama continued:

Now, it — if you think there are possibilities that doctors would not do that, then maybe this bill makes sense, but I — I suspect and my impression is, is that the Medical Society suspects as well that doctors feel that they would be under that obligation, that they would already be making these determinations and that, essentially, adding a — an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion.

Now, if that’s the case — and — and I know that some of us feel very strongly one way or another on that issue — that’s fine, but I think it’s important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. Because if these are children who are being born alive, I, at least, have confidence that a doctor who is in that room is going to make sure that they’re looked after.

Never Rescinded

Democrats or Obama have not rescinded those remarks.  They have spun them to cover, but this is what they think.  They believe this.  If a baby survives the abortion, Democrats favor allowing the doctor legal cover for following through with an abortion.  It’s true.  That’s no longer an abortion per se, and someone might argue that, but that’s not really an argument.  They are finishing after birth what they unsuccessfully tried before the baby exited the mother’s birth canal.

I understand the confusion. If you allow for murder before the baby exits, but you fail at that murder and the baby survives, what difference does it make if you murder the baby after he’s on the operating table?  Everyone knows it’s a murder either way.

Boxer in the House of Representatives

Barbara Boxer, the former congresswoman from California, famously said in a debate on the floor of the House with Rick Santorum that the life of a child begins when they take the baby home from the hospital.  George Will wrote about this in a column at Newsweek:

In the 1999 colloquy, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said: Suppose during this procedure the baby slips entirely from the mother’s birth canal. “You agree, once a child is born, is separated from the mother, that that child is protected by the Constitution and cannot be killed? Do you agree with that?” Boxer: “I think when you bring your baby home, when your baby is born … the baby belongs to your family and has all the rights.”

Santorum persisted: “Obviously, you don’t mean they have to take the baby out of the hospital for it to be protected by the Constitution. Once the baby is separated from the mother, you would agree—completely separated from the mother—you would agree that the baby is entitled to constitutional protection?” She would not say “yes.” Instead, she said, understandably: “I don’t want to engage in this.”

When Trump talks about post-birth abortion, he talks about the stream of thought and evidence above and more.  The hired fact checkers of the Democrat Party don’t like what it does to their abortion argument, but he is right to take the abortion argument that direction.  It is an instinctive and successful negotiating tactic of President Trump.  If it were a lie, he’d have no evidence for his point.  Yet, he and other Republicans do.

Jill Stanek

Democrats say infanticide is illegal in every state.  It is a matter of defining terms.  In the testimony for the “Born Alive Bill” in Illinois, a practicing nurse, Jill Stanek, said that babies born alive after a botched abortion live 10% to 20% of the time.  The Wikipedia article on this episode reads:

Stanek generated national news during the 2008 Presidential campaign when publicizing Barack Obama’s four votes against Illinois’ Born Alive Infants Protection Act while state senator, as well as his state senate floor testimony. She posted a vote tally on her blog showing that, during a March 12, 2003, meeting of the Illinois State Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee, Committee Chairman Barack Obama prevented the passage of an amendment to Bill 1082 that would have conveyed “the rights of personhood upon any fetus expelled or extracted from the womb if that fetus was capable of breathing or voluntary motion.”

How Democrats Support Infanticide

Democrats might oppose infanticide (that particular word), but do they support the prosecution of doctors who kill living babies outside the mother’s womb, the ones who survive the abortion?  They won’t answer that question.  Trump is right to go on the offensive on this point the way he does.  The Democrat position explains how Boxer could have said what she did in her interchange with Santorum in the House of Representatives.  These three pieces of evidence, Obama as an Illinois state senator, Boxer in the House, and Jill Stanek as an eyewitness, indicate that Democrats do support post birth abortion.  I would contend those are examples to which Trump referred in the debate.

It hurts Democrats on the abortion issue to reveal such an extreme as post-birth abortion.  However, they have never nullified these examples given.  They don’t disassociate themselves from Obama and Boxer, who took these positions.  It is not a large distance between murder in the womb and murder outside of it.

My Take on the Complicated World Scene That Includes Ukraine, Russia, and Israel (part two)

Part One

Israel-Palestinian Conflict

From a biblical viewpoint, the Israel-Palestinian conflict started when Abraham sinned with Hagar, who bore Ishmael.  Ishmael fathers the Arab people and Isaac the Jewish.  Complicating this further, 93% of Arabs are Muslim of some kind.  Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook in “Kill a Jew – Go to Heaven: The Perception of the Jew in Palestinian Society,” published in Jewish Political Studies Review 17:3-4 (Fall 2005), write:

The Palestinian religious, academic, and political elites teach an ideology of virulent hatred of Jews. The killing of Jews is presented both as a religious obligation and as necessary self-defense for all humankind.

This assessment of the Jews among Arabs or Muslims goes back centuries before the Zionist movement ever began.

No Jews live in Gaza.  Two sides dispute Jewish settlement in the West Bank.  There are 144 Jewish settlements in the West Bank.  Neither a majority of Palestinians or Jews back a two state solution with the addition of the creation of a separate Palestinian state.  Half of Jews desire complete expelling of Palestinians from Israel — that doesn’t include Gaza or the West Bank.  75% of Palestinians want the annihilation of Israel.  A large majority of all Palestinians support Hamas.

Having traveled to Israel and in the Jewish and Palestinian territories, it’s very tense there.  It cannot work like it is.  The Jews need a place of their own.  A two state solution will never succeed for obvious reasons.  Very good arguments say that Israel should have all the land and the Palestinians find someplace else to live with Arab people.  Jews should have their own, safe country.

Israel and the Land

Americans would never tolerate what the Jews do in Israel.  A certain psychology for the Jews not only allows them to concede to their conditions, but also causes many Jews to advocate for the Palestinians.  Many Jews lay a lot of blame on their own people for their problems.  I do feel for Israel because of the deep hatred from so many across the world for the Jews.

God still has a plan for Israel.  Even if Israel does not own the whole Holy Land, they continue possessing a right to it, based upon scripture.  God gave Israel the land, which is why it is called, “the Promised Land.”  This supports Israel’s statehood, its formal establishment, and perpetuation.  Palestine never had statehood.  It didn’t announce it’s own statehood until 1988.  The Palestinian territories are not recognized by the US, France, or the UK as a state.  At least four Palestinian organizations are designated as terrorist on the United States list, including Hamas.

My assessment of Israel is not some carte blanch acceptance of the policies of Israel.  I still pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States with its rampant ungodliness.  Support for Israel acknowledges God and the truth of scripture.

Two Wars

Because of world politics, the war in Israel associates with the one in Ukraine.  Some of the same characters appear in different roles in both conflicts.  I attribute both wars to the Biden administration in the United States.  Neither would have occurred with Trump as president of the United States.  Many would agree with that, less that would say it in public, but I also want to explain why I think it’s true.

More to Come

Ballot Harvesting, the Big Lie, and the 2020 Election

Just to be clear to you reading, I don’t think President Joe Biden won the 2020 election.   Even if I can’t show you the evidence yet, it’s still what I think.  Most who join me in thinking the same thing don’t have access to what they would need to prove it.  Others are already proving it.  I hope they do.

I did not take the tack of blaming computerized voting systems, the Dominion voting machines.  It sounded very fishy and I still think people might prove people rigged that too.  However, I pointed to the ballot harvesting made easier with the use of the Pandemic, the strategy of not letting a good crisis go to waste.

President Biden received 81 million votes, but I don’t think he got them legally.  Like many others, I say “no way” he got that many votes.  He did the least I’ve ever seen to win an election.  William McKinley had his “front porch campaign.”  Joe Biden had his basement camera campaign.  Trump filled arenas and Biden very often couldn’t fill classrooms.  How did President Biden get enough votes?  Ballot harvesting.

So much corruption went into a Biden win in 2020.  The media concealed and censored the Hunter Biden laptop story.  The media and big parts of the government helped and promoted the Russian collusion hoax.  Tech giants like Zuckerberg helped Biden in likely illegal ways. The Trump impeachment was a fraud.  The media shielded the country from Biden family crimes.  Without all of those, even with ballot harvesting, maybe Trump wins.  On the other hand, with all of those and also without ballot harvesting, probably Trump wins.

I’m not saying President Trump ran the perfect campaign, but those who blame the election loss on Trump, this including recently Attorney General William Barr, I think they’re very wrong.  The things that Barr and others like him say lost Trump the election are also what won Trump the election.  You can’t separate the two.  People come out for Trump because they like what others say lose Trump an election.

In the background of Elon Musk buying Twitter is Trump ousted from Twitter.  The bigness of the conversation about Musk and free speech connects to Trump canning by social media.  This doesn’t even start with the search algorithms that send people to biased locations, helping promote the choices of the tech titans.

To remind you, ballot harvesting occurs when operatives essentially vote for massive numbers of people who would not vote otherwise.  They fill out the ballots for people who would not vote.  Many more votes could come from nursing homes and other large institutions.  This also explains the opposition to voter identification by those who want ballot harvesting.  They call this Democracy.  If you do not like the corruption, you oppose democracy or better, you’re a threat to democracy.

Part of hiding the crime and corruption came and comes by calling the investigation of or even accusation of crime and corruption, the Big Lie.  Those who say people stole the election are co-conspirators of the Big Lie.  If someone says the other side stole the election, they join the Big Lie.  The allegation of the Big Lie is a Big Lie.  The Big Lie isn’t a lie.  The lie is the claim of a Big Lie.  It is just another lie among many.

Even if entering the capital on January 6, 2020 was the wrong move, the treatment or coverage of January 6 is part of the cover-up of a stolen election.  Many reading here probably know the possibly true story that government operatives joined and helped lead the crowd into the capitol that day.  Whatever happened, they helped push it into something they could use to conceal all the real corruption.

You may have heard the terminology, “useful idiot.”  It is technical for being used, really manipulated, by the wrong side in propaganda necessary to promote the wrong cause and ideas.  If you cooperate with those accusing the Big Lie, you’re useful to them.  You help them silence those uncovering the truth.

Like me, you might be thinking there’s no way Joe Biden got 81 million votes in the 2020 election.  Maybe he got those votes.  It’s just that someone else filled out the ballots than those whose name was on them.

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