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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI Don't Trust Anyone Who Says 'Democrat Party'!
We Don't Call Them 'Repiglicans'
We Don't Call Them 'Rethuglicans'
We Don't Even Call Then 'Republicants'
(well most of us don't, I do)
Yet these guys go on TV and it's the same old
Joe McCarthy / Roy Cohn slur;
'Democrat', 'Democrat', 'Democrat Party'!
And they want our trust?

Bernardo de La Paz
(59,143 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(34,247 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(59,143 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(34,247 posts)Makes me wish most liberals and Democrats werent so peaceful after all
JustAnotherGen
(37,135 posts)Or just pubs.
But I'm like that.
Eliot Rosewater
(34,247 posts)Bobstandard
(2,028 posts)But youre absolutely right. Psycho. Scary.
johnnyfins
(3,001 posts)EVERY TIME. So if I hear someone use that phrase, I respond like Dick Cheney to Patrick Leahy.
Mr.Bee
(1,290 posts)Interview and he must've mentioned that term at least six times like it was nothing.
What we say to each other is one thing, but going on National news day after day,
year after year, using 'Radical Left Democrat Party' it just infuriates me!
usonian
(21,054 posts)I am not a cult member.
I am not a cult member.
I am not a cult member.
I am not a cult member.
I am not a cult member.
Hard to tell one, eh?
lapucelle
(20,751 posts)
SocialDemocrat61
(5,822 posts)for Tucker Carlson and Haberman has been a Trump mouthpiece for years.
rustbeltvoice
(469 posts)They are Repukes. Say it. Repukes.
Mr.Bee
(1,290 posts)they make me puke.
I've called them 'Republicants' since Reagan!
I've called them 'Republicants' because they can't.
They can't lead,
They can't govern,
All they do is cut.
bdamomma
(69,053 posts)They break things.
Mr.Bee
(1,290 posts)Just cut it.
luv2fly
(2,527 posts)And those names get varying amounts of attention over time. Why let it bother you?
"Sticks and stones..."
Mr.Bee
(1,290 posts)It bothers me they aren't corrected.
It bothers me they don't cut them off.
It bothers me they don't end the interview.
It bothers me they are disgracing Thomas Jefferson's Party.
It bothers me if it were the other way round we'd never hear the end of it!
ImNotGod
(1,176 posts)aggiesal
(10,351 posts)AMEN!!!
bdamomma
(69,053 posts)Been saying that for awhile, just proves what stupid idiots when they say Democrat Party.
nilram
(3,356 posts)That's what I call em.
artemisia1
(1,147 posts)turned into one by those taking offence without cause. If people now use "Democrat" Party derisively, it is likely because they know you are touchy about it and they are capitalizing upon the ease of offending you. It is more logical to call it "Democrat" party as the "Republican" Party is so called and far less intuitive to lengthen it to "Democratic".
There are better battles to be fought, with much higher stakes than this.
Skittles
(167,806 posts)extremely ignorant and unprofessional
Trueblue Texan
(3,813 posts)but I have to confess I call them all kinds of things, rethugs, right wing nut jobs, tRump jumpers, all kinds of stuff. No apologies either, but I'm not on the air.
SocialDemocrat61
(5,822 posts)It's like proposely mispronouncing someone's name. Same is true when they say democrat Senator or democrat governor.
Buzz cook
(2,793 posts)No big push back from Democrats and the media won't lift a finger to keep the record straight.
It's part of the language now. Probably take a lot to set it right.
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msongs
(72,582 posts)or we will be forever the democrat party as in rat as in sub human. nazi strategy at work
Frasier Balzov
(4,598 posts)I found it a little disheartening.
Mike Niendorff
(3,619 posts)Fascists always try to redefine language to prevent you from expressing dissent, and to force you to frame your speech in their terms.
Removing the words "democracy" and "democratic" from our vocabulary is not accidental, but the MAGA-Speak does also make them very very easy to spot.
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