Surprising Truths About Smear Campaigns: Structure, Membership, Dynamics

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Smear campaigns are premeditated, calculated, relentless: psychopathic (antisocial)

When targeted, narcissists and psychopaths relish smear campaigns because these provide them with attention, excitement and thrills; justify their grandiose paranoid ideation; legitimize their aggression; and affirm their victimhood. They do not experience shame, remorse, intimidation, chastisement, or fear (even if they pretend otherwise), but rage and elation.

Truth can also be a smear campaign when taken out of context (decontextualized)

Form of gangstalking, narrative role-reversal (victimhood)

Example of smear campaign instigator triadic dynamics:

Smear campaigns involve pathetic losers.

Psychopathic cult leader masquerading as a benevolent guru: self-righteous moralizing to disguise the projection. The inducer. Unable to maintain long-term relationships, especially with intimate partners. Substance user.

Faded bloated past their prime histrionic, failed wannabe impostor, pretending to be an investigative journalist, expert, or researcher to lend an air of faux professionalism and objectivity to her or his pursuit of narcissistic supply and celebrity. Sublimates her paranoia as a form of ostentatious faux courage. The exploiter. Could be more than one.

Eternal cult member with a cult mind to blindly follow orders down the cult leader’s rabbit hole in return for a sense of belonging to an extended family, friendship, intimacy, and being accepted warts, shortcomings, repulsiveness, and all. The slave. Could be more than one.

The shapeshifting triumvirate recruits people with grievances, real or imagined, to do their bidding and act as cannon fodder or flying monkeys.

Proselytizers vs. Disseminators: canonical text, exegesis and deconstruction, embellishments

All smear campaigns are conspiracy theories. Narrative themes of smear campaign are folkloric: sexual abuse, fraud, malice, comeuppance, morality play of good vs. evil.

Cultlike dynamics (for me or against me, friend or foe, chosen few, privileged information and arcane knowledge)

Inducer in shared psychosis and narcissist in shared fantasy

Preemptive epistemic injury (real victim disbelieved): victim confused, isolated, questions own sanity and reality

Creating unsafe environment

Involved mentally disturbed people, self-enhancement, defense against ego-dystonic shame and guilt, loss, and nuance

Rescuer-savior, crusader complex

Splitting, self-splitting, and projection (of both traits and actions), reaction formation

Harvesting sympathy, allegiance, loyalty, commitment, validation, soothing, empowerment

Externalized aggression (e.g., revenge for shaming humiliation, esp. in public), virulent envy

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