Gaslighting

Gaslighting makes people crazy.  Anyone feel that way.  I'm watching Brian Williams tonight, I'm not sure the woman's name - Nicole Wallace - I'm having a hard time the way she is lumping Trump's base - I feel like anyone outside the political arena are being lumped together.  I am not one of those working class people out there who is okay with this craziness.  I am an intelligent, well-educated woman who could be considered lower-middle class because I do not have a lot of money.  But I resent what I feel is sometimes the assumption that clumps people together.
I resent/hate/am insulted by the absurdity that is Donald Trump.  Do I understand it all?  No.  But I do know what is happening, and there was NEVER anything in me that would enable me to even considering voting for Trump.  I do not understand those who call themselves a democrat, or who have a brain in their head, who could vote for him.  Unless it is all about the almighty $$.
Something I do wonder is how the Republicans have become so blind to voting for anything that might be democratic.  I tend toward a Socialist perspective - I have always worked in social services and education, attempting to help promote the betterment of families and children.  I too have been a single parent, I have been close enought to needing services - not because I'm "Lazy."  Because sometimes the odds are stacked against us.

Gaslighting

As the 2% get richer and richer, it will get harder and harder for any of us to dig out of a hole.  Forget trickle down economics, folks.  They really want us all working and making $7.50 an hour and no health care.  We then become pawns for their beckoning.  Do you really think that the top Cabinet members that Trump picked, that are all billionaires, could care less about us?  Do you think they care about our betterment?  If they did, why would they talk about getting rid of health care, medicare, social security, minimum wage increases, unions.  Please, people.  How do you think this group of billionaires has any concern for us.  They are only watching their own power and control and money.
Gaslighting comes in here because they are doing crazy lying.  Donald Trump says something one day, then denies saying it.  We have videos and audios of things he has said and done, and then he or KellyAnne say they never said it.  Gaslighting.  Crazy Makers. " You didn't see that, even though you did see that. "  I work with groups of people much like this, who, I'm convinced believe their own lies.  And for those of us with integrity, honesty, compassion, and intellect who DO NOT operate like this, the goal is to make us doubt ourselves, believe them, and express shock and awe that we do NOT believe them.  An example is KellyAnne Conway defending Trump about making fun of a disabled reporter.  Even though we all saw the tape and know what it was, she denies it, as does Trump, and she says we should look into his heart.  This, my friends, is gaslighting.  Does she believe herself?  I don't know.
I personally would not be able to carry on like many politicians and reporters, and those supporting Trump, because it would mean compromising everything I stand for and believe in and live.