The term “Gaslight” is being used lately to describe the process a person uses to make another think that he or she is or becoming crazy. This term comes from a 1944 movie called “Gaslight”. This blog is to compare what happens in the movie (spoiler’s galore!) with what the Democrat Party and its supporting media are trying to do to gaslight the American people.

The movie starts with Paula, a traumatized girl leaving her London home after finding her aunt strangled. An older man escorting her tells her not to look back but to think of her future when she will be taking singing lessons in Italy to be a famous singer like her Aunt Alice. He thinks distracting her with thoughts of a rosy future will help her pain, but he should let her grieve and try to comfort her. The Democrat party wants America to be distracted by thinking of their utopian idea of socialism, which has failed everywhere it has been tried, while forgetting the past under President Trump, where everyone was benefiting from his prosperous economic policies. 

 Next, a grown-up Paula is having a singing lesson 10 years later. Her teacher interrupts her saying and asks why her singing is getting worse. He allows her accompanist Gregory to leave for the day before he guesses that she is in love. He wants to know who the man is, but she leaves without answering never to return. Gregory is the man! He hides across the street, waiting for her to leave the lesson. Did he not want her teacher to know he was her love interest? Maybe Gregory was afraid he would advise her to wait to marry him since they had only been dating for 2 weeks. Gregory calls her over and asks why she still hesitates to marry him.

He is in a hurry! But she reminds him that she doesn’t know anything about him. He says he doesn’t know anything about her either, but he still wants to marry her. Hmmmm. This seems suspicious.

Using Emotion

He agrees to let her go away for a week to be alone and make sure that it is the right decision to marry him so quickly, but then he’s right there to intercept her when she gets off the carriage at her getaway destination. This should have been a red flag to her that things were moving too fast, but instead, she says she would have sent for him if he hadn’t been there to meet her. He didn’t want her to have time to think away from the emotion of being in love.

The next thing we know they are married. She clearly had issues that caused her to rush into it. Maybe it was co-dependency. We all need counseling or a 12-step program to help us heal our hurts, habits or hang-ups (as Celebrate Recovery would say). Then we could better guard against making bad choices based on emotion.

A conservative once told me that he went through training to be a democrat operative just to see what they taught. They mainly stressed how to manipulate people through emotion. Democrats often falsely accuse conservatives of racism because the word triggers strong negative emotions.

While in the carriage going to her getaway, Paula meets a woman who lives in a neighboring house in the square where she lived with her aunt. The lady mentions the

murder of her aunt, but Paula doesn’t mention that this was her Aunt Alice. Rather, she says she only heard of the murder when she was visiting friends in another house on the square. She looks uncomfortable and doesn’t want to talk about it.

Co-Dependency

But when Gregory wants to live in a London townhouse, Paula reveals with no hesitation that she inherited one from her Aunt Alice who was murdered. She admits she used to be afraid of the house and had nightmares of the murder, but now she says that his love has cured her of all her fears so they can move into the house. This reaction is such a contrast with what happened with the neighbor in the carriage. She seems naive about the power of his love. Or maybe it is co-dependency that puts his approval above her own needs for safety.

We all need healing from our issues of denial, co-dependency, and other hurts in our lives. Jesus can heal us, but we are kept from having a relationship with Him by our sin or choice to rule our own lives.  The penalty for our sin is eternal separation from Him or spiritual death. But Jesus took all of mankind’s sin on the cross. He died to take the penalty of sin on our behalf. If we turn from our sin and believe in what Jesus did for us on the cross, we are forgiven of our sins and are reconciled to God. Jesus comes to live in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who changes and frees us from the inside out. He leads us into all truth because He is the truth.

Hidden Information

I think Gregory wanted to marry Paula as quickly as possible before she found out about his past, that he used to accompany her aunt on piano when she went on concert tours. If she had known this, she could have questioned why he wanted to live in her aunt’s house and if he had a hand in her murder. The Democrat Party Doesn’t want Americans to know that they are the party that supported slavery, the KKK, segregation, and Jim Crow laws. Knowing the truth of the past better informs us of the truth of the present and future.

Who Really Cares?

As soon as Paula and Gregory step into her aunt’s house, and she looks at the floor near the fireplace where she found her aunt strangled, she begs not to move back in. She calls it a “house of horrors” and says it “smells like death”. All Gregory can say is that they can put her aunt’s things in the attic, claiming this will take away her painful memories. If he had really cared, he would have had them move somewhere else, but he had an ulterior motive for staying there and putting her aunt’s things in the attic as we will soon see.

If President Biden and his party really cared about their supporters, they would not have him run for re-election. A majority of democrat voters do not want him to run again. The man clearly has dementia and can’t handle being president now, let alone for another term. Just like Gregory with his wife, the Democrat Party, not the voters, comes first.

Lying

As Gregory starts to play the piano, Paula reads a letter she found on the floor. It is from a man named Serges Bauer who asked to see her aunt. The letter is dated only two days before her murder. Gregory abruptly ends his playing with a violent slam to the keys and rips the letter from Paula’s hand saying “Give it to me!” He is clearly upset by the letter, but when she asks “What’s wrong?”, he says he is upset because she is distressed at having her aunt’s things in the house. This is clearly a lie. He hides the letter in his pocket so she can’t read the rest. Maybe the letter could have shown her that Serges and Gregory were one and the same and that he murdered her aunt.

When Hunter Biden’s laptop was first discovered with evidence of corruption between him with his father and foreign enemies of America, former Democrat supporting intelligence officials signed a letter stating that the laptop was Russian Dis-information. It turns out this was a lie. Even New York Times reporter Luke Broadwater reported in a May 2023 article that the laptop was real, and its contents were true. If voters knew this beforehand, the outcome of the 2020 presidential election could have been different.

False Narratives

Gregory and Paula end up staying in the house and don’t go out to see the town or visit others until three months later. Gregory says he wants a longer honeymoon, but it is clear he doesn’t want her to see others. She wants to have parties like she had with her aunt when growing up, but he doesn’t let this happen. He repeatedly tells her that she is unwell, and that it is not good for her to see other people. The cook and maid hear him say this but remark to each other that it is not true. But hearing Gregory’s lie over and over again makes Paula start to believe.

The democrats and mainstream media repeat a lie many times because they know some people will believe it is the truth. I have seen this when watching hearings on Capitol Hill, like with Biden’s impeachment inquiry. Every time a republican would give proof through bank records of Hunter and Joe Biden getting questionable payments from America’s enemies like Communist China, the next democrat to speak didn’t skip a beat in saying there is no proof of corruption. All of them acted like no bank records were ever presented. They know the press will only report their lies, not the proof revealed.

When the neighbor she met on the carriage wants to visit Paula, Gregory gets angry and actually says he doesn’t want any visitors in the house. He wants to keep her isolated from other people’s perceptions of reality so he can continue to feed her false narratives.

Is She Going Crazy?

Before they finally go out to see the Tower of London, Gregory gives her his mother’s broach, but he says its pin is broken so instead of her wearing it, he shows her that he put it in her purse to keep it from getting lost. This is really a set up to make her think she is becoming forgetful because she looks for it while in the tower, and it is missing from her handbag. She begins to question her memory. Did she forget that she took it out and put it somewhere else? She never suspects that Gregory took it out. Paula is spied leaving the tower by a detective named Brian who thinks he recognizes her because she looks like her Aunt Alice whom he was a fan of a as boy. He decides to re-open the cold case of her aunt’s murder.

Back at their house, Gregory continues to make Paula believe that she is not only becoming forgetful but that she is also going crazy. When he leaves every night to supposedly work on composing music at a studio outside the house, she notices that the gaslights in the chandelier dim. Then she hears footsteps coming from the attic, but no one could be, she reasons, because the attic is blocked off from being entered. The cook claims she doesn’t see the lights dim nor does she hear the footsteps. Paula starts to wonder if she is going mad. This adds to her fears of being in the house alone because of her aunt’s murder.

Pictures begin to disappear from the walls. Gregory accuses her of forgetting that she took them down and hid them. When she questions who else would do this, he says she is accusing the cook or the maid of removing them. He then humiliates her by making the cook kiss the Bible in front of Paula and swear she didn’t take the picture. Paula is really beginning to doubt her perceptions now. By accusing her of blaming the hired help, Gregory was distracting her from thinking that he took the pictures. The democrats and the mainstream media want the American people to focus on the fake indictments against Trump to distract them from Biden’s growing scandals.

Who is Serges Bauer?

The detective discovers that there was a young pianist, who turns out to be Serges Bauer, that accompanied Aunt Alice when she would go on tour and was a suspect in her murder. He also learns that Alice received Jewels from someone in royalty that went missing after her murder. Was Alice killed for these jewels? He has Gregory followed when he supposedly goes out at night to his music studio. He discovers that Gregory is really walking to the alley behind his house, going into and up on the roof of the abandoned house next door, climbs over to his house’s roof, and goes into the attic via the skylight. Brian needs to talk to Paula to figure out what Gregory is up to.

Meanwhile, Paula and Gregory are invited to a music reception by a friend of her aunts, but Gregory, not wanting Paula to see people, responds that Paula is unwell and can’t come. But she finally puts her foot down and tells Gregory that she feels fine and will go even if he doesn’t. He can’t let her go alone, so he goes with her but sabotages their outing by accusing her of taking his watch, forgetting where she put it, and then finding it in her purse. He does this in the middle of the music concert she is enjoying (nice guy, huh).

Her nerves are shot by this time, and she cries out, making a scene that shops the music. Gregory tells the host they shouldn’t have come, and they go home. Back at the house, he finally tells her that she is going mad. He claims that she will end up like her mother, whom she never knew, who was put away because she went insane. He also claims that she just imagined that there was a letter from a Serges Bauer. Before leaving again for his studio, he says that he will soon have doctors come to take her to a mental hospital.

Brian to the Rescue

Fortunately, Brian the detective was at the reception, saw what happened, and followed them home. He forces his way past the cook into the house to talk to Paula when she is alone. He tells her she is not going crazy. He sees the gaslights dimming. He hears the footsteps above. He tells her about the missing jewels that her aunt was probably killed for. He explains that Gregory is really going into the attic every night to search for them instead of going to his studio. Brian breaks into Gregory’s desk and finds the missing broach from Gregory’s mother and the letter from Serges Bauer.

Paula is beginning to wonder if Gregory could really be Serges Bauer who is a murderer and a thief, but she still wants to live in denial. She says that Brian is mistaken, that Gregory didn’t know her aunt and that she knows the man she is married to. But Paula doesn’t know her husband because they got married after only two weeks of dating.

Denial

Don’t be in denial. Get all of the facts. Find out the history of things before believing someone in government, especially democrats. Most of the mainstream media lies as well as reports “fake news” as Donald Trump would say. But more often, instead of misinformation, their reporting has missing information. What could be easier than to not report on something they don’t want the public to know about because it doesn’t fit with a pre-determined narrative.

As I said in my Jan. 6, ’21 blog, I saw cell phone footage of the cops waiving people into the Capitol, or letting them walk by them inside without stopping them. This was not a riot. After almost three years, the US House of Representatives has finally started to release footage from security cameras in the Capitol. You can go to the website to view them at CHA Subcommittee Reading Room – United States Committee on House Administration.

Why did it take so long to release the videos? Because they go against the narrative pushed by the mainstream media and the democrats that what happened was an insurrection. The Capitol is a huge building. The mainstream media chose to show only where a few people (in my estimate, there were at least a million total) were being violent. The rest were entrapped into entering the Capitol by anti-Trump or inept police or a group like Antifa dressed in Trump gear.

Whose Crazy Now

When Gregory comes home from “the studio”(actually he comes down the stairs from the attic) after finally finding the jewels, he is arrested. As he leaves for jail, he says to Paula that the jewels were “like a fire in my brain”. He wanted them all his life, and he didn’t know why. It seems like he was the one who was crazy. When he saw the crown jewels at the Tower of London, he looked possessed. He waited ten years to get back into the house to find the aunt’s jewels. He even married someone he didn’t know to get them.

Democrats often accuse others of doing what they are doing themselves. For example, some call Trump Hitler, but they are proving to be anti-semitic. The democrats call their opponents “Conspiracy Theorists” instead of crazy. But it is ok to ask questions about their narratives. Sometimes you’d be crazy not to.