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This is America Dissective.

I'm your host, Dr. Abdul Alseh.

You hear the term gaslighting all the time these days.

The term itself, gaslight, comes from a 1938 play by the same name.

In the play, adapted for the big screen in 1944, a husband manipulates his wife by lighting

and putting out a gaslight to make her question her own sanity so he can have her committed

and steal her inheritance.

People talk about gaslighting when there's a fundamental miscommunication of emotions,

but feel gaslit when somebody doesn't embrace their experience.

But gaslighting by institutions, where they systematically work to alter your perception

of reality, that's happening all the time.

When GOP politicians or gun rights activists tell us that the problem with gun violence

is actually doors, or our failure to arm teachers or mental health, that's gaslighting.

When the Supreme Court tells us that they're taking away people's fundamental rights over

their uteruses, in order to return the issue of abortion to the people, that's gaslighting.

When they tell us that a quote, originalist understanding of the Constitution justifies

unfettered access to automatic assault weapons when the framers of the Constitution only

ever used muskets.

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