The constant, calm, shameless repetition of absurdities eventually wears away at the soul. It becomes easier just to play along. It's abuse.

This is common in a certain proportion of family relationships, usually with a malignant narcissist. Dictators do it to entire countries.

With gaslighters, there is no "pivot." There is no appeal to decency or reason. They are abusers, monsters to their very core.

Gaslighters will tell you your memory doesn't work. That you and your "objective reality" is just abusing them. They are the "real victims."

If you bend to them, then they can control affairs, warp situations to their unique benefit. Until you make them stop. NONE SHALL PASS!

There's a point that victims come to when - NOPE - actually, no the FBI director doesn't work "for the White House."

NOPE - actually it's not normal for half the f**king Republican leadership to give Sergey Kislyak foot rubs. NOPE. NO WAY. NOT TRUE.

And still, our national abuser lurches forward, ever forward, forever running from his monstrous nature. Pursuing us with lies.

From interpersonal relationships to the restoration of Constitutional norms, healing only begins when we say: THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE. pic.twitter.com/PSwKNr1zL5

(This was a gratuitous inclusion of Gillian Anderson as Scully, Patron Sainte of Chasing Down Weird Mysteries While Remaining Skeptical.)