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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy aren't we calling the Republican Party the "Republic Party"?
They started insulting us years ago by saying the "Democrat Party". Now, I even hear some Democrats saying the same thing! Why must we accept an insulting term used by Republicans and not call them "The Republic Party"? I know, I know we're above it all, but really; "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore".!
hlthe2b
(102,359 posts)I think they are nothing but thugs now, so Rethuglican seems appropriate.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)Republic still sounds noble. I vote Repuke.
bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)zanana1
(6,129 posts)bearsfootball516
(6,377 posts)It bothers me when both sides use them. To me, you're not morally superior to someone if you're flinging childish nicknames at them like they do to you. It's immature imo. It's the classic, never mud wrestle with a pig, idiom. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.
The Truth Is Here
(354 posts)That's more appropriate.
But yes, like the other poster said, we're above that childish shit.
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)ReTHUGs
OhZone
(3,212 posts)Actually a number of my friends and relatives have taken up that abbreviation. ha
nolabear
(41,991 posts)atreides1
(16,093 posts)We should be calling them the Trump Organization!!!
eShirl
(18,503 posts)FakeNoose
(32,748 posts)Caliman73
(11,744 posts)It does make me mad that Republicans intentionally say the name of our party wrong. They are pretty ridiculous people, like bully children. I don't want to resort to silly name calling. It doesn't mean that I will not describe them or there actions in terms that are harsh. It just means that I do not think that calling them things I have seen like "Rethuglicans", "Repukes", etc... are particularly effective. It is a personal choice for me. If other people feel like they need to do that for themselves, more power to them. I won't participate.
bobalew
(322 posts)"Banana Republic Party"
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)MuseRider
(34,119 posts)and actually strive to not sound or be like them.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)I can't bear to see them outdo us.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)marybourg
(12,634 posts)Doremus
(7,261 posts)Their base is titillated when they use "Democrat party."
Our base would find "Republic Party" petty and dumb.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)because that is the only part of humans they seem to have any interest in.
ffr
(22,671 posts)They're basically brainwashed Americans acting on behalf of the Ruskies.
Contra-patriots or traitors for short.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)And if they complain to me I say Im just dropping two letters like you did.
nykym
(3,063 posts)RepubliCONS
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Why is a member of the Democratic party called a "Democrat"?
iscooterliberally
(2,863 posts)I know they're trying to insult the Democratic Party, but to me it kinda blew back on them. As soon as someone uses the term 'Democrat Party' whatever credibility they might have had is gone. Their words are not better than silence.
marybourg
(12,634 posts)To my extreme annoyance.
sarisataka
(18,770 posts)Over a playground level insult?
If a person says Democrat party, I don't react and just correct them once. If they continue to say it wrong I know they are trying to make me upset and/or lacking the intelligence to use correct terminology. I won't give satisfaction to the former and pity the latter.
malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)They have absolutely nothing left in common with our 16th president.
Ms. Toad
(34,087 posts)At least since the 70s. Strong democrats I grew up with called it the Democrat party. Most of them don't have college degrees; some dropped out of high school (or even grade school) because they were needed to take are of their families. This fixation on proper grammer is an elitism that alienates solid democrats like the ones I grew up with who just don't give a damn about whether it is a noun or an adjective.
Beyond that, this is a silly fight that is akin to one sibling using the other's comb, jacket, gloves, etc. because he knows it will get a rise out of her.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Deb
(3,742 posts)let it be their anchor
onethatcares
(16,184 posts)because they can't seem to do anything good for the working man or the country unless it involves giving tax breaks to billionaires.
DavidDvorkin
(19,485 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)(among other things)
912gdm
(959 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Which is what that would do, as it's not satire, clever, or humor; but rather meant to be taken and judged on its own merit (that is, none).
Let the neck-beards illustrate their own lack of character; and further, let them excuse it as something other than what it's not... they require that particular self-justification to maintain the fictional pretense that they can in fact, think rationally.
Bless their little idiot hearts. All they want is their duly earned thirty pieces of silver.
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)It has a nice ring to it. Maybe that is why.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Whatever vomit they swallow from the 1% propaganda machine, they repuke on anyone near enough to get splattered with it.