Are you a Trump supporter?

[henryp]

I get your situation.  You've got a house of cards you're trying to maintain based on a mildly hilarious combination of self-delusion and the idea that you're some sort of truth teller.  And that's understandable.  We all got to do what we got to do to get by, so you get a pass.  

Hey moron, it's not possible to be deluded about what you honestly believe. You're confusing illusion with delusion. Even if I'm self-deluded I'm still honestly self-deluded.

As it happens, I'm not self deluded, but you are a trump-loving moron that lacks intelligence.

Do you honestly believe it though?  I assumed you recognized it on some level for what it was.  Or maybe you don't.  But I've seen how you reacted on these forums a couple times when someone took off the kiddie gloves and was blunt with you for a brief moment.  To me it appeared there was an awareness on some level that you're deluding yourself.  

But I'm just a dum dum saying dum dum things.  So I wouldn't worry about it.

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If people recognized the media's sensationalizing, I don't think they'd buy in like they do.  And really, it may not be the media that's the root of the problem.  The media just helps some people get to where they want to go?  Because the goal for a lot of people seems to be "Imagine the reality that is the worst regarding the opposition, and assume that's true."  I think the media in a lot of cases is just helping people think up a worst possible reality.

Hillary and pizzagate is a great example.  Hillary is a lousy person, and probably a criminal as well.  But that in no way justifies thinking she ran a child sex ring or whatever that story was out of some pizza place.  If this were a conservative forum, I'd ask the same question of right wing folks.  

What do you think keeps people from noticing they've been wrong/misled over and over without adjusting how they come to their next opinion?

Those people still think they’re right about those things, lol.  Why would they think they need to adjust their methods?

For the fringe, no doubt.  But the narratives also have legs with people who don't seem particularly daffy.  And I don't think they keep on believing the false stories forever.  They just kind of never talk about them again.

What's the thing in gambling, where you only remember your wins?  Maybe that has something to do with it.  So someone believes 5 false stories, and then the 6th story they believe has substance.  And they say "See, I was right!"  While 'forgetting' the first 5 stories that were bullshit that they believed.

That's what I was curious about.  All the losing bets, and if people even acknowledge their existence.  I guess if you pretend or block out that they ever happened and selectively remember the bets that you won, there's no way to draw any conclusions or adjust your thinking based on the losing bets?