I have a question. Does Vice-President Harris’s proposed policy of a “ban on grocery store price gouging” constitute “gaslighting” as defined by the experts at Psychology Today?

Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and psychological control. Victims of gaslighting are deliberately and systematically fed false information that leads them to question what they know to be true, often about themselves. They may end up doubting their memory, their perception, and even their sanity.

When a politician tells you they can ban grocery store price gouging, isn’t that gaslighting, straight up? Because, as far-Right misinformation terrorists have reminded us, politicians have been promising to freeze prices for 2,000 years, and it never worked. But what do unbiased fact-checkers say? I suggest: “Don’t Know Much About History.”

I mean. Isn’t all politics a form of gaslighting? Isn’t the whole point of politics to endlessly rehearse your Groucho Marx imitation and say “who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?”

And here’s a question. Does gaslighting work with anyone, or only with someone that, deep down, wants to believe something that isn’t true?

For instance, I was watching Mark Halperin doing a 2-WAY interview with Dr. Jordan Peterson, and he really wanted........

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