Democrat vs. Democratic

[Atamasama]

I’m happy to see a thread on this, so I’ll copy my comment from the other thread over here.

@Atamasama

It’s hard to call someone “democratic” in one breath and “socialist” in the next. Just as some people on this board insist on using the term “reactionary” instead of “conservative”; it’s the same logic. They don’t think the word is being used properly.

It’s really not much more than that.

Well, that and maybe a bit of honest confusion. Republicans belong to the Republican Party. The word “Republican” serves as both a noun and adjective. Those not trying to use it as a pejorative might assume Democrats are from the Democrat Party because they’d follow the same semantic rules.