{"id":2388,"date":"2026-01-12T14:29:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/?p=2388"},"modified":"2026-01-12T14:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T19:30:30","slug":"why-cant-democrats-leftists-acknowledge-all-the-good-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/?p=2388","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#8217;t Democrats\/Leftists Acknowledge All The Good Things?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The answer lies in PRODUCTION VALUES.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHuh?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s simple. Democrats, their acolytes and their lemming followers are only influenced by input that either tugs at their heartstrings, tickles their fancies, are shiny objects or evoke outrage and anger. They do NOT respond to facts, evidence, good news, REALITY, even when it\u2019s right in front of their eyes or smacks them in the face (e.g. falling gas prices, falling mortgage rates, reductions in crime, a secure border, exposure of fraud, waste and abuse, etc.).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Deceptively edited video, audio, soaring or sinister music\u2026i.e. production values, are what Democrats respond to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coupled with selective broadcast over the internet in all social media forms, the Left\u2019s deliberate, performative theatrics, replete with outright lies and misrepresentations but accompanied by emotion-producing color serve up an alternative reality that causes feeble, indolent, Leftist minds to perceive the world in a way that\u2019s almost exactly opposite of what really is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cICE is evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOrange Man Bad\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo Kings\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so on and so forth\u2026slogans, epitaphs (on pre-printed signs), chants, weeping, whaling and gnashing of teeth\u2026 now, overt profanity to add \u201cshock value\u201d to camera appearances\u2026all designed to garner attention, gen up outrage, fear and mob violence\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We have to counter with our own, high-production value communications and media. How we do that is the bailiwick of the conservatives with the money, clout and skills to do so. The work of Newsmax, One America News Network, still to some extent Fox News, the blogs, eZines and in particular, Hollywood outlets that create their own heartstring-tugging, patriotic, heroes in white hats, wholesome and positive content\u2026need to keep up and accelerate their good work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Karoline Leavitt, bless her heart, the Right-leaning media and the White House talking heads have a monumental job countering all the BS the Democrats\/Left throw in the air. We\u2019re slowly turning the tide but judging by the fact that we recently lost a number of high-profile elections and that there is still an overwhelming amount of unadulterated Democrat\/Leftist nonsense permeating the atmosphere, it\u2019s an uphill battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But we\u2019ve won uphill battles (Iwo Jima) before, and God willing we\u2019ll win this one too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The answer lies in PRODUCTION VALUES. \u201cHuh?\u201d It\u2019s simple. Democrats, their acolytes and their lemming followers are only influenced by input that either tugs at their heartstrings, tickles their fancies, are shiny objects or evoke outrage and anger. They do NOT respond to facts, evidence, good news, REALITY, even when it\u2019s right in front of their eyes or smacks them in the face (e.g. falling gas prices, falling mortgage rates, reductions in crime, a secure border, exposure of fraud, waste and abuse, etc.). Deceptively edited video, audio, soaring or sinister music\u2026i.e. production values, are what Democrats respond to. Coupled with selective broadcast over the internet in all social media forms, the Left\u2019s deliberate, performative theatrics, replete with outright lies and misrepresentations but accompanied by emotion-producing color serve up an alternative reality that causes feeble, indolent, Leftist minds to perceive the world in a way that\u2019s almost exactly opposite of what really is. \u201cICE is evil.\u201d \u201cOrange Man Bad\u201d \u201cNo Kings\u201d And so on and so forth\u2026slogans, epitaphs (on pre-printed signs), chants, weeping, whaling and gnashing of teeth\u2026 now, overt profanity to add \u201cshock value\u201d to camera appearances\u2026all designed to garner attention, gen up outrage, fear and mob violence\u2026 We have to counter with our own, high-production value communications and media. How we do that is the bailiwick of the conservatives with the money, clout and skills to do so. The work of Newsmax, One America News Network, still to some extent Fox News, the blogs, eZines and in particular, Hollywood outlets that create their own heartstring-tugging, patriotic, heroes in white hats, wholesome and positive content\u2026need to keep up and accelerate their good work. Karoline Leavitt, bless her heart, the Right-leaning media and the White House talking heads have a monumental job countering all the BS the Democrats\/Left throw in the air. We\u2019re slowly turning the tide but judging by the fact that we recently lost a number of high-profile elections and that there is still an overwhelming amount of unadulterated Democrat\/Leftist nonsense permeating the atmosphere, it\u2019s an uphill battle. But we\u2019ve won uphill battles (Iwo Jima) before, and God willing we\u2019ll win this one too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/grumpsreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/blindfold-9139525_1280.jpg?fit=853%2C1280&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2388"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2388\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpsreport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}