Quote Originally Posted by time4fun View Post
I don't know that they'll really get to that point where they acknowledge how wrong they've been. These are people who keep going back to the right-wing media outlets that told them Obama wasn't a US citizen, that the ACA had government run "death panels", that economic success inherently "trickles down", that Clinton was going to be in prison "any day now" for using a private email server, etc.

Look at Rockstar- he's been called out for citing articles from actual fake news outlets 3 or 4 times in the last year. And he still goes back to them again and again while lambasting outlets like CNN for being fake. Even when you show him that he's reading fake news sites, he still believes them.

Or PB who has spent most of the last year and a half questioning literally everything about the Mueller probe- buying into every fake narrative and arguing against anyone who dared to say that the Russians actually had interfered in our elections, that Trump had real Russia ties, that the Trump campaign was meeting with Russian government officials, etc. etc. etc. But when you ask him about it now- he swears that he never argued those things. Even though he's fought the truth every step of the way, he still perceives himself to have been right all along.

So yes some of this is cynical political calculation, but honestly the human brain has an amazing capacity to maintain a narrative even while surrounded by information disproving that narrative.
No, they'll never acknowledge it. How can they? It'd be devastating to one's psyche. They don't have to acknowledge it either because they don't have any memory. They absorb and repeat any talking point that's being shopped around on the networks and their partisan news sources. When their current piece of fake news is debunked they just move on the next without ever taking the time to reflect on how wrong they were. Some blatant examples are Obama golfing, Obama vacations, demeaning the office of the presidency etc... They simply have no use for objectivity but can use all the outrageous fake news they can get their hands on. Hell, Tucker Carlson was out there saying he doesn't think Cohen did campaign finance violations even though the dude confessed. Truth no longer exists for trumps GOP.