Someone on the right did. And furthermore, unlike Hillary’s server, that one was blatantly illegal.
So far as I know the OP of this thread isn’t a “leftist”.
Watch C-Span2 sometime. Whomever is serving as Mr. President in the Senate often calls on “The Democrat Leader.”
In reality? The one that abused the filibuster rule to create a minority veto. Why do *you *think a majority vote was never enough?
I doubt that this is accurate and I would need to see an actual citation before accepting your claim that it is true.
In reality, referring to the “Democrat Party” has been a longstanding insult used by Republicans and others on the political Right and, unless you want us to open this forum for “Repugnican Party” or similar epithets, you would do well to stop being deliberately insulting. While it does not violate a rule against personal insults in this forum, its continued use does look sufficiently like trolling that it might be taken as such.
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Right at the opening, the Senate Majority Leader refers to the “Democrat” budget. This wasn’t at a political rally, or on talk radio, it was on the Senate Floor.
And last week in the Senate Budget Committee, Sen. Sessions refers to his “Democrat” colleagues.
Senate Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Markup, Day 1 | C-SPAN.org @ approximately 40:30
If Senators Reid, Durbin, Murray, et al, aren’t protesting the term, I’m not sure why posters here take such offense.
I am not a senator. I would prefer you use “Democratic.” How about it?
One last one, to back up the use of “Democrat Leader” by the presiding Officer, @ roughly 13:10.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?324905-1/us-senate-human-trafficking-bill
So? I hold Congressional Republicans in just as much contempt as I hold the rank and file for voting them in. Just because a Republican used that form of the word as part of a direct address doesn’t mean it’s correct. Frankly, if a Republican used that form of the word it pretty much indicates that it’s NOT correct, to me.
They’re more or less constrained by a need to retain some illusion of respect and collegiality by their positions. I don’t hold such a position, and I don’t pretend to have respect or collegiality for Republican forms of disingenuous micro-aggression, so I don’t have to maintain the illusion of being okay with it. Deal.
My sympathies are with you, JJ, as you most likely know by now. I thinks its more a peculiarity of grammar and syntax, Democratic and Republican. So, I say “feh!” or “meh” whichever implies the most indifference.
IMO the Democratics on this board are being over-sensitive. But that said, I would guess that use of the term “Democrat” versus “Democratic” is more common in speech than in written form. The reason being that in speech it’s harder to distinguish between “Democratic” and “democratic”, while in print the capital and lowercase letters make that distinction clear.
It isn’t a matter of our oversensitivity, just a matter of noting that the use of the word as an adjective by a Republican is intended as an insult even if we don’t take it as one, and therefore indicates that the speaker’s maturity level is below that which demands respect.
That sounds a lot like oversensitivity to me.
All I can say is you guys have chosen the right MB for yourselves. Safety in numbers.
If you think casual, juvenile, even thoughtless insults help advance *any *discussion, then a message board devoted to fighting ignorance is always going to be hostile territory for you.
I agree about that. But the question is how and whether you can deal with other people who won’t play along.
BTW, did you ever hear of the concept of cognitive dissonance? Just curious.
Is that not also the case with the distinction between “Republican” and “republican?”
What do you suggest?
The one where you claim those pointing out your ignorance and immaturity are just being oversensitive? Yes, I have.
People almost never use the term “republican”, so there’s little if any room for confusion. “democratic” is quite common.
[In addition, there’s not much alternative. The term “Democrat” is in common use by members of the Democratic Party and neutral people. I don’t see any similar alternatives for “Republican”.]
You’ve apparently confused me with someone else.
Is it that hard to keep aware of the difference between a noun and an adjective? In one case, the same word is both; in the other it is not. Clear now?
Have you ever heard of avoidance tactics? :dubious: Look up, just a couple of posts:
Disappointing.
You are confused about this issue too.
Pay close attention now.
I’ve described the reaction to use of the term Democrat as oversensitive. However, I myself have not used that term in this thread.
Now think about it.