There used to be a Stupid Democratic Idea of the Day, but it died rather quickly. This seems to have taken its place, and this exact same discussion has occurred many, many times.
Just because Blago was once a Democratic governor doesn’t make him a liberal now. I’m not sure what the hell I’d call him now, but while shilling for Trump is undeniably stupid I don’t think you can call it a “liberal idea.”
I wonder how many of the people cheering him at that rally ranted against him 11years ago as an example of the horrible corruption in the Democrat (sic) party.
Anyway, it’s great to finally, after over a month of thread idleness, finally find another stupid liberal idea. Even if it’s questionable. See you in two months!
Too soon, man. Too soon. 
The stupid liberal idea was supporting and elevating this corrupt ass in the first place. The day (or days) were in 2002 and 2006.
BRACH socialism GAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!
This is true. We may have had ignorance as an excuse for '02, but not for '06. (And to make it even worse, his opponent was a true fiscal conservative, not some sort of religious right zealot.)
Does any USian know what that term really means?
Only the ones who don’t use it as a cudgel to describe their opponents and their policies.
Does anybody, really? It is an incredibly broad term that extends from public roads and libraries all the way over to Leninist principles. It is at least as broad as “Christian”.
To a teeny, teeny amount of credit, someone did figure out eventually that it was a bad idea to have an indoor sit down dinner when coronavirus cases were spiking. But the fact it got as far as it did is definitely a stupid, stupid, dangerous move by Democrats and a bad display of leadership.
The new representatives are going to have to suck it up like everyone else who was supposed to be doing a one-of-a-kind special event this year and do it differently than usual.
Since when is it your call?
Common decency is to refer to people, or groups of people, as they preferred to be called. We are Americans.
Like I said, who put you in charge?
Kind of presumptive to ignore those who live in other Americas. Are they not also Americans?
Nobody put me in charge. It’s common courtesy. And you know that.
Genuine questions, because I genuinely don’t know. Do people outside of the USA but in the Americas refer to themselves as Americans (and not “North Americans”, “Central Americans”, or “South Americans”)? Do people outside of the Americas refer to the people(s) of the Americas as Americans? Is the term “American” in actual usage ambiguous as to whether it refers to citizens of the USA or to residents of the Americas?
My understanding is that much of Latin America, possibly excluding Mexico, would consider themselves American. I have been told that Latin America generally does not delineate in the same way between North/Central/South America, and just consider the whole thing America. I think Canada and Mexico avoid the term because of our proximity to the USA. So it might be ambiguous in some contexts, but probably not in the US or Canada.
How big of an ordeal is organizing this dinner? If it’s something that they had started planning 6 months ago, I could understand hoping this would all blow over by now (and hoping even more as deposits were made and caterers were paid etc). To be fair, as much as we have to be careful right now, we also, I think, have to work on the assumption that at some point this will be behind us. For example, I don’t think it would be wrong to plan a family vacation for a year (or two) from now and hope that you don’t need to cancel it.
I’ve always wondered that as we well. I always think back to a high school teacher that said it’s pretty (at best) selfish to assume “American” means “from United States of America”. As he explained it, if you go to, say, Italy and someone asks where you’re from, you’d say ‘America’. America could, of course, mean you’re from Ontario or Idaho or Guatamala or Peru, but “we” tend to think America=USA.
I have to wonder if part of that is because Canada, Central and South America are divided into provinces/territories or smaller countries. Would someone visiting Italy say they’re from America/South America or would they say they’re from Brazil?
I think to people from the states, “America” is short for United States of America, not North America.