That sounds rather unlikely to me, especially when the term “Democrat Party” is neither offensive nor insulting. As we have Democrats saying they use the term Democrat as an adjective, how does that affect your rather extreme worldview of what the use of the term means about the speaker? Sorry, but I think you’re seeing this through hyper-partisan lenses. That is of course your right, and maybe you’ve got the truth nailed here, but in my experience the most extreme explanation is rarely correct, so I’ll stick with my view for now.
They are sensible, but not knowledgable, and have no memory of…
…from high school history, which makes you, in specific, look like the out-of-touch elitist, also a very bad tactic.
Again, pick your battles. Fight their ideas, not the really, really lame names they call you. Don’t take offense at something that, as John Mace thought, could just be part of a local dialect. Save your offense for the real insults. You needn’t wait long, and then the gloves can come off and you can indulge in some 1820-style down-and-dirty politics.
We do have people who will insist on calling it the Democrat Party after being corrected. What is the explanation for that?
Because I totally get doing it in innocence. But after you’ve been corrected? You can’t fall back on ignorance at that point.
(Again, I don’t really care about the name, just like I don’t really care if someone uses a nickname for me. But once corrected, people should correct.)
Then they are jerks and their names get added to your mental jerk list, but I am willing to bet they’re already there. Save your ire for important things, like misused apostrophes and non-use of serial commas.
Nah, I don’t hate those guys. The ones who get my goat are the “I am not prejudice” people. I didn’t say you were the ENTIRE NOUN. 
Anyway, yes, they get put on my mental jerk list. But the question is, if they are doing it innocently, why aren’t they fixing it once corrected?
I have a mental jerk list, but I think I use that phrase differently than you do.
I had the same thought…
Great minds, as they say, ha ha.
(Scans list, comes up with Lea Thompson “Some Kind Of Wonderful” locker room scene…)
Hey, gotta go! See you next time!
You’re right, I should also stop using Google® and Adobe® Photoshop™ as verbs too.
If there’s no ambiguity, there’s not really a huge impetus to change what you call it. Especially if it’s how you think about it in your head and it sounds more natural to you. If it really raises ire from someone in real life I’ll go to Democratic in the appropriate contexts just to be diplomatic about it, but I’ll continue using Democrat when not around them because it sounds more natural to me.
Say what?
Most people are probably too polite too tell you that you sound stupid when you call it the “Democrat Party”. But you do sound stupid. I mean, if you want to make up your own idiosyncratic names for things because you like how they sound – go right ahead – but it comes off as ignorant.
It’s like if you’re talking about video games and you keep calling the Wii U the “Wii 2”. Yeah, people will understand you, but you’ll sound pretty clueless. It’s a grandma mistake – the sort of thing you hear from people who don’t know much about the topic under discussion. “Democrat Party” means “I don’t know much about politics, so what I’m saying is probably ill-informed”.
So would you agree that someone who continues to use the phrase “Democrat Party” after they’ve been informed of the correct name is likely in violation of the “don’t be a jerk” rule on this message board?
Could be an honest mistake. People make those.
And if they keep doing it after they’ve been told what the real name of the party is?
If I get your name once wrong right after we’re introduced, that’s probably an honest error. But if I keep calling you the wrong name after you’ve corrected me multiple times, either I’m deliberately being a jerk or I’m mentally damaged in some way.
I guess, but to be honest I very rarely say “Democrat Party” anyway, usually I’d just say “the Dems” and it’s a nonissue.
There was a similar thing with Photoshop years back. My point was that companies are “correcting” people as to the proper use of their (products’) names, so why aren’t people following it now that they’ve been corrected on the proper usage?
You can make “democrat” into a verb if you want. You can make it into a verb meaning “to complain about stupid shit” if you want. Have fun.
Why are you correcting them more than once? They are trolling you. Don’t feed them. You aren’t in grammar school anymore, so grow a thicker skin. Politics is no place for wimps who get their dander up over every little insult.
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When people go through election cycle after election cycle seeing campaign signs like these it’s hardly any wonder they refer to the Democrat party. I realize that slamming your political opponents for being stupid, uneducated, bigoted morons worthy of little but mockage is de rigeuer around here but in reality you’re largely pointing the finger at yourselves.
The phrase “Hoist by your own petard” comes to mind.
Really? You’re arguing that Republicans are so easily confused or so minimally informed that seeing a sign proclaiming “Vote Democrat” (as in, “Vote for the Democrats” or “Vote for this Democrat”, since you seem to need it spelled out for you) causes them to misidentify the actual official name of the party?
Yup, that does sound pretty ill-informed and/or dumb.
I believe in confronting trolls and calling them out on their trolling. “Don’t feed the trolls” doesn’t work. It just lets trolls thrive.
Look at how this very board works. Trolls get banned. They’re not quietly tolerated out of high-minded principle.