You make two excellent points. The first is the above.
The second, puts the ideologically bankrupt leftist bedwetters into two categories: Those who deliberately lie to advance their agenda, and those who bought the lies and help perpetuate them (the fools.)
Frankly, it doesn't matter one iota to me if one of these ideologically bankrupt, limp-wristed liberal bedwetters know they're lying or not. It simply doesn't matter. We all have the ability to find the TRUTH. Liberals make the choice NOT TO, in order to further their own agenda. The phrase "if you tell a big enough lie long enough, eventually even you begin to believe it" certainly applies.
Leftist Lemmings.