Character Assassination

MY Haters, take note, this is for you.

 DARIUS CIKANAVICIUS on Childhood Trauma, Narcissism, and Mental Health

Character assassination is a cheap tactic used by manipulative, or  psychopathic people, and usually the best way is to not to get lured into the drama of it, simply ignore it, and continue doing with what you are doing.  Some want to find out the truth, there will be those who can see through it immediately, and there will be those who are simply not interested in it. But either way, you can endure it, stay on track, and continue with your life.

In other cases, these manipulators are the devious type, where they see their remorseless destruction of you as a means to an end in realizing their own goals, and they will justify it with a soothing narrative where you are a villain. Where they have no choice but to do what they are doing, and where they are a hero. 

They will use various manipulation tactics to gain people's trust—sometimes the very people they aim to destroy—and then utilize it in their attempt to assassinate their target.

Manipulators are terrified by others not liking them, or having a negative perception of them, they will try to make themselves feel better by finding others to support their delusions. 

They will tell their people their version of the story where you are a villain or where you are the perpetrator and they are the victim. They will, depending on the type of the relationship, they will say how you are a bad person, mischaracterize you, be overly-critical of you, while in reality they feel inferior—and in certain aspects factually they are inferior—and project that onto you, sometimes without even consciously realizing it. 

Manipulators are cowards, as they need someone to get their narcissistic supply, enabling, and resources for their schemes. In many ways, they are just like bullies who intimidate, or try to sabotage you with lies and deception. Usually their group consists of admirers and enablers—who lack their own identity and fail to question the manipulator's or their own toxic tendencies.

These people's lives are their punishment.