on gaslighting of the american mind.

on gaslighting of the American mind.

American commentators struggled to say exactly how a brain might be washed or whether the spin cycle could be reversed.  (1)>>To "gaslight" someone isn't just to lie to them or to manipulate their emotions. It is a deliberate attempt to deceive someone into questioning their own perception of reality. WE should be full awake that our Government has been doing this since the digital age . But it wasn't until 10 or 15 years ago that the term itself became popular, popping up frequently in advice columns or news stories about domestic violence.   The idea that we Americans are being "Gaslighted" has turned up in a common theme with the election of Donald J Trump .  (1.2)>>Gaslighting America is a non-fiction book Amanda Carpenter for example which tares into the notion of Trump's social media "lies". In reality Trump is a symptom of a decades long downward spiral of the American political system .  I think from September 11th 2001 on ward that subject  is becoming all to real . 9/11 was the turning point to the ruin of the American system , the loss of American military dominance in the world following the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan . In 2008 we saw the election of Barack Obama and The Recession of 2008.  Five million of the 8 million jobs lost did not return - despite an increase in population of 10 million over the same span of time covering President Barack Obama's first term .  Even during the Obama years there was so much gas lighting by the same political elites who crossed over from the Bush era . These elites know how to work the system on both sides of the political left and right [ Democrats and Republicans ] . These elites are still with us from both parties fogging our minds .   The 2016 election of Donald J Trump is another obvious twist . While Obama was a leftist who wanted to pour money into the nation as part of a economic stimulus package,was estimated to be $787 billion at the time of passage, later revised to $831 billion between 2009 and 2019. ... Not a single Republican member of the House voted for the stimulus. None of this money helped any average American , it served only to bail out and save the Banking System , Wall Street .While the nation went from extreme to another the Trump economy has made an rebound. The Left's  gaslighting of the Trump economy has commenced and  (2)>>it will continue through the 2020 elections. Every bit of good news will be met with spin as to why it is bad news.  Remember both political parties have been doing this . Republicans did it to Obama , now the Democrats are doing it to Trump.  With Our two party system is no longer working . Congress has its hands shackled by "special interests" , soft money from   lobbyists . Our two party system is eroding . Democrat or Republican is useless to the American . They will never get anything done . Example has been the recent Democratic debates , the biggest argument is healthcare . The health-care segment of the debate also hinged on questions of trust. Reminding the Democrats that we still have Obama-care. That exchange, like several others on Thursday, was largely about how radical, or just how ambitious, the Party is prepared to be. Is sweeping, structural reform the best way to effect change, or is Obamacare worth building on? (Some factions in the Party have been busy rejecting parts of Barack Obama’s legacy—in the area of immigration, for example.) The Democrats rejecting Obama is pretty much how the party shifted since Trump took office.

on Saying Goodbye to John Bolton .

Bolton had his "eye" on war . War with Iran , a
secret invasion of Venezuela . Oh yeas
bombing North Korea too!

President Donald Trump finally freed himself from the clutches of evil . The resignation   [firing by Trump 😂] of John Bolton will change [ hopefully] end many of the major conflicts that the United States is involved in [ with attention to Iran , (2.1.1)>>North Korea , Venezuela] How unstable is President Donald Trump’s White House? In two years he has so many major ousters.  Trump's BIG PROBLEM is that he surrounds himself with so many unqualified people that rock his boat , some of them have turned traitor , turning against him . Causing his ship to go in circles.   A look at just one vitally important post — (2.1)>>national-security adviser — Adios Bolton . He picked a Bush era old guard who's policy was bomb first and ask questions later . From the looks of it Bolton had a few problems . (2.2)>>Starting with Venezuela, he was pushing Trump to overthrow Maduro , replace that dictator with a CIA trained puppet  .And Bolton’s departure prompted the U.S. special envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams, to announce that the U.S. government is not “closer” to a military intervention in Venezuela. It vary OBVIOUS that Trump was not a war person . He stopped the bombing against Syria, he wants to pull troops out of Afghanistan . This was not good for Bolton. Remember that  Bolton has been an advocate of regime change in Iran for years, and wrote in a 2015 New York Times op-ed that the U.S. had to bomb Iran because that nation "will not negotiate away its nuclear program."   With the ouster on Tuesday of John Bolton   and the appointment of Charlie Kupperman as acting national-security adviser, Trump is now on his fifth guy. Instability, uncertainty, lack of coherence and lack of clarity are not conducive to keeping the nation safe. The Middle East is a barrel of gun powder right now . Its OIL , there are so many fractions like Israel , Saudi Arabia and Iran .  The Saudi oil fields are easy pickings for terrorists . As Common Dreams reported , the recent escalation between Iran and the U.S. was sparked by the Trump administration's belligerent threats and naval activity in the Persian Gulf. This vamping up of the American military in the Persian Gulf is right out of Bolton's page book.  Scapegoating Iran is easy . Our own American news media is filled with anti- Iranian news propaganda [ another form of gas lighting us ]  trying to sell a war with Iran to the American public . While the oil fields burn in the Saudi kingdom , this escalation is likely the end result of American support for the Saudi war against the Yemeni rebels . As I SUSPECT , (3)>>with Bolton's departure with hope that simple diplomatic  talks  should start with Iran first again.  Trump’s more conciliatory tone towards Iran in recent months should have been the clue that Bolton, always a bad fit for this administration, was beginning to sour Trump. With Bolton gone there exist a hope that a new deal may be reached with Iran that might end decades long hostilities .

The Impeachment Game .

Another problem is how the Democratic Party is  that they are gas lighting themselves . It's really amazing how they are going after Trump with one investigation after another . AS REALITY soon TAKES HOLD  [endless investigations going nowhere ] Trump is not going to be impeached so easily  . Here is what is going on now with the Democrat's attempt .   The filing comes a day after the committee approved a set of technical procedures for its impeachment investigation, the most significant legislative move yet in Democrats’ potential effort to oust the president  But the Justice Department rebuffed that claim on this Friday, citing inconsistent statements from senior Democratic leaders — as well as their own claims that the ongoing investigation might lead to innumerable outcomes other than an impeachment vote. Senior Democrats expressed concern this week that the lack of a unified message on impeachment could hurt their prospects in court, as they seek access to Mueller’s secret files and testimony from his key witnesses, which they say is necessary in order to determine whether Trump should be impeached. Republicans on the committee have highlighted the lack of a committee-passed resolution approving a probe into whether the panel should consider articles of impeachment, therefore arguing that Democrats' claims of ongoing impeachment inquiry is nullified.  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats in Congress still dragging their feet on starting an impeachment inquiry on Donald Trump. — even as the mainstream media feigned confusion — that he had assembled the evidence and it was time for Congress to act. Pelosi herself has been clear enough about what she believes, saying that Trump is "engaged in a cover-up" that "could be an impeachable offense." Yet the speaker appears to be digging in her heels. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler(D-N.Y.) has increasingly framed his investigations in the context of impeachment, without staging votes to launch a formal inquiry. Almost 140 House Democrats are on record endorsing the impeachment of President Trump in some form. But Pelosi and her top lieutenants have resisted that route, citing a lack of support from both the public and Republicans on Capitol Hill. Pelosi is also fighting to protect vulnerable moderate Democrats in 2020 — lawmakers who could face a backlash if Democrats launch a full-throated impeachment effort before more voters jump on board. But Pelosi has downplayed the possibility of pursuing impeachment, hinting that such a move would hurt Democrats electorally. Put simply, the impeachment of Bill Clinton hangs over everything — Republicans impeached Clinton in 1998, and voters rallied to his defense. Pelosi and other senior Democrats probably fear a similar backlash.

NOTES AND COMMENTS :

 (1)>>To "gaslight" someone isn't just to lie to them or to manipulate their emotions. First, those doing the gaslighting must display confidence and audacity in pushing their view of reality and must persevere boldly in the face of evidence that contradicts their claim. Second, the target must be psychologically isolated and denied validation by others who see the same reality. The left’s dominance in the cultural institutions of education, news, and entertainment has given them both elements.(1.2)>>Gaslighting America. Until recently, it was rare to see the word used in a political context - though in a 1995 New York Times column, Maureen Dowd argued the Clinton administration was "gaslighting" then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich by needling him with minor slights."As is common with people who mistreat others," Washington Post advice columnist Carolyn Haxtold a troubled reader in 2013, "your partner responded by blaming you and apparently gaslighting you off to therapy." Post-2016 election, American voters were gaslighted by a severely anti-Trump cohort:  top bureaucrats, the Democratic and media establishments including CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, etc For over two years, the country was divided into two alternative realities. Liberals fervently believed that Trump was a Russian agent-and-colluder and that Robert Mueller would deliver the goods on Trump to them.(2)>>it will continue through the 2020 elections.  Trump was and is a perverse gift to the mainstream, establishment media, They LOVED HIM . Did that dynamic help elect him? There’s no definitive answer. But we gave him an extraordinary bounty of coverage, depriving his rivals of commensurate oxygen and agency. And while our coverage of him had turned overwhelmingly negative by the final months of the 2016 campaign, it by no means started out that way. Donald Trump was popular way before 2016 , that is not going to change anything. While all the negative reports on Trump running through the media , it giving the gift of free air time. (2.1.1)>>North Korea .Bolton had also taken a hard-line position on North Korea, writing in a Wall Street Journal op-ed shortly before coming to the White House that a pre-emptive strike by the U.S. would be “perfectly legitimate.” He was sent to Mongolia on a mysterious errand while Trump became the first sitting president to set foot inside North Korea.   (2.1)>>national-security adviser . Five security advisers in 32 months — months. Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton had seven in 24 years. Combined. Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush combined had four in 16 years. And, again, that’s one key job. (2.2)>>Starting with Venezuela .True, it seems that Bolton promised the president that change would be easy in Venezuela, with a few targeted tactics, like accepting Guaidó as the country’s legitimate president. Another strategy included offering human aid at the border between Colombia and Venezuela, aid that was set on fire by Maduro’s troops. Still another tactic resulted in failure, the belief that the Venezuelan military would succeed in a revolt against Maduro.Despite these results, devastating to hopeful Venezuelans, one official cautioned against assuming that, with Bolton gone, the administration will make any sudden policy shifts. Let’s hope that’s true.(3)>>with Bolton's departure. President Donald Trump suggested he might lift some U.S. sanctions on Iran as an incentive for Tehran to come to the negotiating table, according to a person close to Bolton. Trump raised the idea of lifting sanctions during a discussion with Bolton in the Oval Office. Bolton made clear to the president that he strongly disagreed with the idea.