What's your LEAST favorite buzzword or cliche often seen on DU?

[Bicoastal]

I'm talking words, expressions, or short phrases--not opinions. For example, someone brought up the term "straw man" the other day, which IS ubiquitous and overused--often wrongly--but at least it's a legitimate figure of speech.

There a lot of buzzwords that get on my nerves, but I think my least favorite is sheeple.

It's a pretentious, arrogant expression--I can never imagine anyone saying it without a sneer on their face--that implies the poster is an enlightened figure trapped within a crowd of dullards. I suppose we all feel like this from time to time, especially when the latest statistics on birthers and evolution-deniers come out. In a political context, however, it gives strength to the ugly conservative stereotype that liberals are elitist know-it-alls who look down on the majority of their fellow Americans. Worse, the bar for qualifying as a "sheeple" (singular--Sheeperson?) is often irritatingly low, like owning a television, or eating at a fast food restaurant, or saying anything that may be construed as patriotic.

I think "sheeple" bothers me most because liberals are supposed to be on the side of tolerance and open-mindedness, of listening to (if not agreeing with) all viewpoints and accepting lifestyles different than their own. A self-proclaimed liberal who refers to people who don't think like they do as "sheeple" reveals him or herself to be as big of a snob as cigar-chomping asshole Rush Limbaugh--and, ironically, exactly as conceited as he likes to claim WE are.