Shot in the Dark

Tag: Our Narcissistic Elites

  • Life With An Abusive Half Of The Electorate – Part III

    This week, I started going over the political and social aspects of various personality disorders, viewed through the lense of Shahida Arabi’s excellent piece,  “20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You”. Yesterday it was “Gaslighting” – the narcissistic abuser’s way of trying to convince you not to trust your own…

  • Life With An Abusive Half Of The Electorate – Part II: Social Gaslighting

    Yesterday, I introduced you to an article.  “20 Diversion Tactics Highly Manipulative Narcissists, Sociopaths And Psychopaths Use To Silence You” by Shahida Arabi. It’s a fairly brilliant piece on coping with people with the variety of personality disorders that are slowly being recognized – sociopathy, narcissism (the two favorite pop-culture “diagnoses” of Donald Trump, among…