The "Democrat Party" slur

[TheSocialDem]

I guess msm has just given up pushing back on this slur whatsoever.

I’m just venting, it does get to me when they get away with renaming our party and slurring it intentionally and never get checked on it.

I know there’s so many other things, but I’ll never not correct someone in person that calls us the democrat party. We’re the Democratic Party. Thank you very much - you’re a clown and I have no respect for you

[róisín_dubh]

1. You're not the only one

It makes me crazy and has since they started saying it.

[TheSocialDem]

2. I can't wait for someone to say that

In conversation with me haha. Deserved or not they are gonna get this smoke haha

[multigraincracker]

3. I call them Publicans.

Old word for Tax Collectors.

[a kennedy]

32. Ooooo, I like this Publicans.

[Mme. Defarge]

4. Did that start with

Newt Gingrich?

[rubbersole]

5. Joseph McCarthy.

IIRC. Per a post by Thom Hartmann 7/4/2023.

[TheSocialDem]

6. McCarthy I think

Throughout this time, McCarthy - in an eerie prescience suggesting today's Qanon conspiracy theories about
Democrats drinking children's blood - argued that the central nexus of the
"homosexual agenda" as well as the
"communist sympathizers" was the
"Democrat Party."
Throughout his hearings, carried on live television every day for almost two months, McCarthy refused to use the actual name of the party and its members he was slandering.
Instead, he argued, "Democratic" sounded too nice, too, well, democratic. McCarthy is sometimes quoted (it may be apocryphal) as saying, in Newt Gingrich Word List fashion, that Republicans should just say, "Democrat Party, with the emphasis on the 'rat'!"

[electric_blue68]

18. I had no idea it went back that far! Grrrr, andTy

[UTUSN]

33. During GINGRICH, their "focus group" snake oiler Frank LUNTZ

piled up a list of focus "tested" words with the favorable or unfavorable reactions they elicited, and that was the main unfavorable one. It grates because it has an ungrammatical edge, using a noun as an adjective. The grinchites hopped to goose step all of the list, the "good" ones for themselves, "bad" for us. It's a rhetorical, propaganda technique. I hadn't heard of the despicable McCARTHY connection but don't doubt it.

[DFW]

7. Since they are not in favor of a Republic

I just call them “the radical right.” Never the “GOP” as they ditched the “G” part after Eisenhower.

[GoneOffShore]

19. I use GoW - Gang of Weirdos

[Cha]

8. Consider the Sources.. Fascist Cons & m$m another enemy od the state.

[brewens]

9. The last time I had Limbaugh on for a little while he had that worked into about every paragraph. His copy writer

had to be one sad sack of shit! LOL

Between being on an award-winning high school paper and college journalism, I was fully trained to write news copy at a radio station. I never went into the business, but it would be hell having to do that and call it your work! Stupid son of a bitch took a job where he's not even allowed to do a good job! LOL

[BaronChocula]

10. Joy Reid is the only person I've seen correct "guests" who talk that way

But my point has been it really makes those dimwads seem dimmer. It makes them sound like Archie Bunker. It makes them sound like they left school in the fifth grade. It makes them sound like the mob that wanted to lynch Tom Robinson in the Maycomb courthouse jail. It makes them sound like Strom Thurmond if Strom Thurmond was alive today. It makes them sound like they hunt out of season. It makes them sound like welfare frauds. Ok, I'll stop.

[Celerity]

24. Mehdi Hasan did as well.

[AJH032]

11. The response to this, IMO, should always be

“I don’t know what the Democrat Party is. Never heard of it.” and proceed to ignore anything else they say. It’s the kind of demeaning response they deserve.

[Lemon Lyman]

12. :-)

It's so stupid. "Oooo...you're so clever & edgy."

Another dumbazz one is "libtard." First, you don't say the "r" word or try to incorporate some variation thereof into a word or phrase. 2nd, "liberal" and the "r" word have nothing to do with one another. I get it, they're putting them together to show disdain. But it doesn't fit. Its moronic. "Rightard" would at least make sense. Again, you don't say stuff like that. But at least those two sort of go together.

[Baltimike]

13. I just call them the Republic Party in return. nt

[Conjuay]

28. The "Republican't Party" or

The ”Repugnantcans”. Ifthey want to shorten ours, we should lengthen theirs.

[The Grand Illuminist]

36. Won't work. Here's why.

They do a counter of Obama's "D is Drive, R is reverse". They use "The Republican Party represents the republic, and the Democratic Party represent Democrats."

[Baltimike]

38. It works. Nice try though

They get pissed off and as insulted as ever.

I am a blue dot in a deep red section of a blue state.

this ain't my first rodeo by any means.

[mwb970]

14. trump mispronounces Kamala's name on purpose.

What a baby.

[The Grand Illuminist]

37. He gets confused with the wrestler.

Whose real name is actually Jim Harris.

[dmr]

15. It drives me crazy when it happens here on DU. Arrgghhh ...

Calling us the Democrat Party is not only an insult, it meant to be insulting.

A few years ago, Lawrence O'Donnell said Democrat Party while doing his show. I sent him a Tweet that night explaining the insult.

The next evening during his show, and with the biggest smile on his face, Lawrence said the Democratic Party. I Tweeted him back with a nice Thank You!

Anyway, Social Dem, thank you for posting.

[RussellCattle]

16. This slur has pissed me off since I heard it repeatedly from crochety, ill-tempered and humourless Bob Dole, a man who..

......looked and acted like the personification of heartburn. (Just checked, because I wasn't sure, he is dead. Good. )

[betsuni]

17. William F. Buckley Jr. called that bad English "phony baloney."

[malaise]

20. M$Greedia is part of the problem

It is their responsibility to correct these assholes. Guests from the Democratic Party should also call them on it and walk off the effin set iwhen it is repeated. Likewise every time an elected ReTHUG says it in a legislature , an objection should be raised. It has always been an attempt to delegitimize the Democratic Party.

Dems should also call them weird - how hard is it to remember the name of the Democratic Party.

[elocs]

21. Yes, it bothers me as well. It's the DEMOCRATIC Party. I've heard Democrats refer to it as Democrat Party

and I have read it done right here at DU where the posters should know better.

[Walleye]

22. Yeah, this so-called "Democrat party"sounds terrible, I'm glad I'm a member of the Democratic Party

When I go in the voting booth, I’m voting for the Democratic Party. The Democrat party is not on the ballot.

[themaguffin]

23. My response when I see it online...

"What is the 'democrat' party? We have two major parties and that's not one of them. Are you referring to a third party?"

They either don't respond or get flustered.

[tritsofme]

25. The only reason they do it is to elicit this very reaction.

If they want to make themselves sound like even more ignorant hicks, I don’t particularly care.

[Bucky]

26. Sticks and stones

is what they'll use when they lose the election

[Mike Niendorff]

27. A simple response (which is entirely accurate) :

The words "democratic" and "democracy" are forbidden words within the Republican Party.

Just think about that. Then think about it again.


MDN

[CrispyQ]

29. My right wing cousin complained that we think we're smarter than they are.

I said, "In our defense, you do keep voting against your own interests & you use a noun as an adjective." He gave me a blank look so I explained. "Democrat Party. You're using a noun to describe a noun." I'm not sure he got it even then, brainwashed fool.

[GreenWave]

30. Maybe they didn't study adjectives to get their degree?

[Poiuyt]

31. They do this because "Democratic" sounds too good

How can anyone be against something that is democratic?

[Brainfodder]

34. Ignorance like that just lets me know who the better man is.

Other folks have thoughts, I can disagree and be civil, but if you vehemently unrelentingly get in my face about it, NO ONE HAS EVER DONE THAT TO ME, so laughing is highly likely.

[Midnight Writer]

35. Only in MAGA-land is acting ignorant a flex.

Now the ignoranti class are all dutifully, purposefully mispronouncing Kamala.

[Torchlight]

39. Those who use it are stunningly unaware how accurately its usage

portrays the content of their own character. I hear it uttered, and my only thought is "this is person not worth talking to, whose only agenda is to push buttons rather than engage in discussion." I make my excuse, and then leave them to the comforts of cheap beer and blaming others for their own flaws.