Even when gaslighting techniques fail, they can cause harm. Here's how.
, but come to see their own knowledge as unreliable, so their “knowledge” does not protect them.
I believe that this model of gaslighting – where harm is done when the victim yields cognitive authority to the gaslighter – does not go far enough. Even when gaslighting techniques fail, even when we are not taken in by the lies, they cause harm by creating a schism between those who yield and those who do not.
There is a wonderful, little-used 17th-century word “malverse” that means “to act corruptly in a position of trust.” Taking “corruption” in this context to mean “corrupting the truth,” we can see that this is how the political gaslighter wields and maintains power. Malversity disorients everyone. The supposedly trustworthy person is untrustworthy. Argument is useless because the objective of argument is neither fairness nor truth, but power and control.
The gaslighter is quick to deliver a clear message:"If you disagree with me or challenge me, you will be dismissed, derided or mocked." In frustration or self-defense, those who spot the gaslighter's lies may resort to the same techniques of dismissing, deriding or mocking the gaslighter's victims. Different groups form, each fixed by various labels suggesting one is good and the other bad.
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