# Liberals, Progressives, or Democrats, can we get over 'The Democrat Party?'

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**Created:** [May 24, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-or-democrats-can-we-get-over-the-democrat-party/689186 "2014-05-24T16:00:49Z")
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### Author: ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/liberals-progressives-or-democrats-can-we-get-over-the-democrat-party/689186/42 "2014-05-24T20:24:58Z")

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> [@BrainGlutton](#):
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> [Because.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet))

> [@To what extent can a group member's character be inferred from others'?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-what-extent-can-a-group-members-character-be-inferred-from-others/680677/4):
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> Not really an applicable analogy; **the Democrat Party** at the time was fiercely internally divided on the issue. The only comparable division in today’s GOP is between the crazy and the not-crazy. WRT racism, nobody in today’s GOP is against it in the “We’ve got to do something about this!” sense, that’s a Democratic monopoly now.

Because at some point, that shit just doesn’t matter. And even well intentioned people get it wrong sometimes.

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