I will put this here.

To get someone to go insane, doesn't there need to be psychological manipulation involved. Just because they are not successful in making Americans insane, does not mean they are not using the tactics of gaslighting sir.

You're under the false impression that for it to be gaslighting one must reach insanity. That is not correct at all.

Why the selective edit? I was highlighting the points to my argument. Which is gaslighting is being used whether it is successful or not at obtaining the goal of someone questioning themselves, or going insane.

Just look at all the mostly white liberals who have succumbed to the stories that they are racist and doubt who they are and start apologizing for being something they never were.

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Posted by AggieHank86

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Posted on 7/14/23 at 8:02 am to RockyMtnTigerWDE

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To get someone to go insane, doesn't there need to be psychological manipulation involved. Just because they are not successful in making Americans insane, does not mean they are not using the tactics of gaslighting sir.

obviously, there is no Holy Writ anywhere, defining the cultural use of the term “gaslighting.“ Different people will interpret it different ways.

To me, the key element for something to constitute “gaslighting“ is the affirmative desire to produce insanity or to cause another to QUESTION her sanity.

Using the same tactics, with a different goal (for instance, political manipulation) is certainly “disinformation.“ I personally do not see it as “gaslighting.

I suppose that I just like the film enough to make me a purist on this point.

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Posted by TrueTiger

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Posted on 7/14/23 at 4:01 pm to RockyMtnTigerWDE

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Just look at all the mostly white liberals who have succumbed to the stories that they are racist and doubt who they are and start apologizing for being something they never were.

White liberals are the most susceptible to mental illness.