In reply to: If Trump wasn’t such a tool he would easily win people back posted by Inigomontoya
Anyone who uses that term is a chucklheaded dipshit.
Their normal vocabulary of DemonRat and sheeple would be frowned upon here.
It was a couple years ago that someone called me out on it here (might have been you or Mollie). I’ve been pretty conscious of it since, even if I wanted to make fun that seems like a lazy approach.
Making fun of both parties should be fair game though. I haven’t seen much they wouldn’t justify to stay in power.
It dates back to the 1964 Republican Convention.
Yes, it's stupid.
you and others due and giving them their desired reactions they'd stop using it. It's dumb and should be ignored at most. However, it seems to illicit a reaction every time it's done, thus potentially supporting the theory that it's taken as an insult by the Democrats in the Democratic party.
Democrat is a noun.
I'm reacting to the use of it on this board because it's stupid and juvenile.
I had just noticed and was asking about it.
shocking of course that it's basically immature name calling.
are several posters back here who will take the bait every time. I don't agree with baiting them but no one is forcing them to respond.
I don’t even get how it’s supposed to be insulting. Just because it’s not the correct word?
people for some reason, which for some people is the intended outcome. I don't get it either.
It's a dumb insult "hur hur you're not democratic".
We're better than this type of language here. "You reacted to it" is sort of a thin excuse.
In my mind, if you're a member of the Democratic party, you're a Democrat.
I've read that word in regular media for years.
Now it's an insult? It's dumb if it is, but I don't see it.
If I didn't know you better, I'd worry you were being a touch willfully obtuse here. (I say this playfully!)
Ok, so to the basics:
- Democrats combine to form the Democratic Party, or the "Dems"
- Republicans combine to form the Republican Party, or the "GOP" (which is about whimsy folksy as one gets these days, but I digress)
I wouldn't say "Republic Party" any more than "Democrat Party". It's not the name, right?
Yet some of the pettier elements in MAGA have seen fit to use the name "Democrat Party" because in their minds it's a way of insulting them by suggesting they are not "democratic" or something. It's juvenile and stupid.
I think it's perfectly fine to name your party whatever you want. I sort of roll my eyes at the "Freedom Caucus" but I'm not going to make nicknames for them. I don't even indulge in "Gym Jordan", as much as he deserves it.
I agree using the phrase "Democrat Party" makes no sense, and if it's supposed to be an insult, it's an incredibly dumb one.
correction The Democratic Party.