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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA lot of DUers ignore the use of Democrat and not Democratic by the Con, ReTHUGs and media hacks
WaterMan uses brilliant boxing analogies and I can't help recalling Ali taunting Ernie Terell with 'what's my name' as he took him to the cleaners
It's Democratic Party - demand that they show some fucking respect or knock them out. Now they want to be a one party state.
safeinOhio
(32,727 posts)Publican is old Latin for tax collector.
SCantiGOP
(13,874 posts)is to refer to them in writing and when speaking as 'repubs.' It's quicker to write and hopefully irritates the repubs just a bit.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Love the video.
malaise
(269,187 posts)and they are also authoritarians. You can't ever allow these scumbags to change your name. And the tools working for M$Greedia rarely correct them.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)However, I pretty much ignore all Republicans so it would only stand to reason that I would ignore what they blather about.
redqueen
(115,103 posts)becoming acceptable to editors and the general public.
it really is disgusting seeing this grammatically incorrect, pejorative way to Democrats
becoming acceptable to editors and the general public.
is part of the slippery slope - respond -silence is consent
redqueen
(115,103 posts)silence will not help.
(Could have sworn I typed 'refer to Democrats', looks like it got clipped - oops)
marble falls
(57,268 posts)dflprincess
(28,082 posts)I'm hearing and seeing more Democrats using it. I corrected one person who should know better and was told I was being petty.
malaise
(269,187 posts)Hope they don't find it petty when Don the Con tries to lock up Democratic Party members.
Democrats should call them ReTHUGs on television and wait from a response from said M$Greedia.
And they are thugs.
Tarc
(10,476 posts)He's a pinhead about most issues, being a righty and all, but he did 100% honestly think it was the name, as he'd heard it said (pejoratively) so early and often by like-minded friends.
It took the Wikipedia entry (and some perusing through the revision history of the article on the Democratic Party to make sure "some vandal didn't just change it a minute ago" to convince him.
malaise
(269,187 posts)Silence is consent - now the ReTHUGs want to disappear the entire party
Ms. Toad
(34,101 posts)People, including solid democrats, have been making this mistake for decades. I grew up with a lot of proud democrats who use the term incorrectly. No disrespect intended - it's just how they speak. Since most of them are now in their 80s or older, they are not likely to change just because Republicans have discovered they can get a rise out of us by using it.
Simply put - it is pretty much the least of my worries about Republicans these days. And if somehow all of the other worries disappeared - I'd count my blessing that the evils of the Republicans was limited to schoolyard bully taunts.
malaise
(269,187 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,101 posts)pointing out grammatical errors is elitist - in the same way pointing out worn clothing, out of date clothing, manners, or other indicia of class or education are elitist.
As for petty - really?
We have a president who ivites foreign governments to interfere with our elections, fires people for daring to honor subpoenas, orders the assasination of foreign leaders, uses the US treasury as his personal piggy bank, the vast majorty of elected republican leaders who think that is just fine. Against that backdrop, it is petty (of secondary or lesser importance, rank, or scale; minor.) to harp on a grammatical error.
Leith
(7,813 posts)between stupid rethug trolls and good people.
malaise
(269,187 posts)matters
Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... ID them for me early in any exchange.
Talitha
(6,619 posts)I'm a Democrat who supports the Democratic Party.
But yeah, I get what they're doing - the idiots just do it to annoy.
So I call them 'RussiaPublicans' - just to chap their asses.
malaise
(269,187 posts)The ir leadership does it to disrespect and their base do it because they're just plain stupid.
It is not merely a grammatical error at the leadership level - it is deliberate