The kind of policy the manipulator adopts against stronger and more intelligent people. It is exactly what he does when his victim is too strong to be faced directly. This is a complex, subtle and time-consuming strategy.
First of all, the manipulator must know his victim’s relatives, friends and fellow-workers. As each of one’s friends and relatives has at least petty shortcomings, the manipulatortask is to heighten their importance so as to change the victim’s perception of his/her kin. The second step is the exact opposite, that is to say, heighten the victim’s shortcomings so as to change his/her kin’s perception of him/her.
Now, with the same "double" strategy, the manipulator will insinuate negative opinions and actions by some of them into the others. Petty daily things that usually go unheeded if taken one by one will engender mutual antipathy when taken together. At times the manipulator may even "invent" whole sentences some would have said and, say, tell the victim that a friend of his/her has talked behind his/her back. It takes great skills to make lies sound credible and the manipulator knows that in that very moment he is running the risk of losing the victim if he/she finds it all out, but also that he can catch him/her like fish if he/she believes it all. Therefore, over time (weeks, months or even years), the manipulator creates a distance between the victim and his/her kin, which will slowly isolate him/her from social life, from his/her free life and existence.
At that point, however strong the person might be, he/she is left alone, apart and easily vulnerable. And it is in that very moment that the manipulator thrusts his powerful blow to conquer this fortress as well.
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