Gaslighting America

Some people really do live in alternative realities.  A good deal of them are not confined to obscure blogs or city street blocks screaming things that people frankly know aren’t true.  However, if you manage to get yourself a show on Fox News and you get to repeat the lies day in and day out, people think some one may actually fact check you.  Critical masses of people can mistakenly believe the lies. Glenn Beck just keeps gaslighting America and a good number of people appear to be stupid enough to believe him.

I frankly can’t watch him.  He’s so obviously got issues that you wonder how he has managed to escape treatment for mental health problems.  I guess if you’re a gravy train, people will ride you no matter what. What really bothers me is that he actually does have an impact on some people.

Just ask an obscure 78 year old professor retired from CUNY, Frances Piven, who is receiving death threats because Beck’s decided that something she wrote 45 years ago has brought the “United States to its knees”.  It’s amazing to me what a really disturbed mind can self create.  Facts are abused out of necessity.  Beck seems to think if you just keep writing the same things and saying the same things over and over you can gaslight enough of the people enough of the time.  He manages to make a living and stay within the disturbed little bubble he’s created to rationalize his own failures.  He’s empowered by delusions and denial and paid very well for them.  Every thing that happens to Frances Piven as a result of his words is just one more symptom of poor little Beck.  It’s all about his suffering, his problems, his brilliance, and his deluded truth.

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