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Our urgent need is to understand ‘the gaslighting effect’ itself, because all attempts to deal with it thus far have been an abysmal failure.
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The children cried out, as if with one voice, “Please, Sir, tell us the parts about Obama the Saracen king, and about how the brave Paladino blew his horn oliphant, and did vanquish the Saracen’s fearsome wife!”
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O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath—America will be!
From Let America Be America Again, by Langston Hughes, 1938.
In her December 16th, 2016, farewell interview from the White House with Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama spoke eloquently about the experience of hopelessness.
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For people considering participating in protest or civil disobedience, it helps to have some practical know how. The following summary points are taken from my experience with ACT UP and Radical Faeries in the 80s, and can be found in a compendium called ACT UP Civil Disobedience Training.
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Protest and civil disobedience are obviously not for everyone (unless of course there really is no option, and then it is). My suggestion is that even taking steps short of activism, or perhaps on the road to activism, will make you start to feel a little bit better.
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As Attorney General, Pruitt sued the EPA on behalf of Oklahoma utilities unwilling to accept regulation of coal-fired power plants. To date, all of Pruitt’s anti-EPA suits have failed.
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After searching DC Pizzeria Comet Ping Pong for captive child sex slaves that didn’t exist, and firing his AR-15 in the restaurant, North Carolina man Edgar Maddison Welch admitted that his fake news “intel” was not “one hundred percent.”
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