01-11-2017, 10:32 AM
CNN is trying to bring in a new phrase for Trump's style of Big Lie... "Gaslighting". The term comes from an old movie...
The illustrations of Trump's gas-lighting performances are to a great degree well known. The article just brings various incidents into a common focus and tries to attach a new descriptive phrase to the technique. Possibly worth a read.
CNN Wrote:If you've never heard the term, prepare to learn it and live with it every day. Unless Trump starts behaving in a radically different way after he becomes President, gas-lighting will become one of the words of 2017.
The term comes from the 1930s play "Gas Light" and the 1940s Hollywood movie version (Gaslight) in which a manipulative husband tries to unmoor his wife, played by Ingrid Bergman, by tampering with her perception of reality. He dims the gaslights and then pretends it's only she who thinks they are flickering as the rooms grow darker.
That's only the beginning. He uses a variety of truth-blurring techniques. His goal is to exert power and control by creating doubts about what is real and what isn't, distracting her as he attempts to steal precious jewels.
The illustrations of Trump's gas-lighting performances are to a great degree well known. The article just brings various incidents into a common focus and tries to attach a new descriptive phrase to the technique. Possibly worth a read.
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