Reply #11: Long a perjorative use by right wing

[ashling]

Looking at Merriam-Webster's dictionary, it would seem the only thing people doing this are guilty of is poor grammar (Democrat is a noun, the proper adjective form is Democratic. Republican can be used as a noun or adjective).


Websters is not Emily Post.

The party is oficially called "The Democratic Party." Etiquette would call for members of the other party to refer to our party by its proper name. I first recall tthis insulting behavior by Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater in 1964 at the Republican National Convention. Goldwater would spit ou "The DEMOCRAT party" in a very perjorative way in an erstwhile attempt to deny us any claim to being democratic.

To be "democratic," is to be patriotic - and God knows they don't want to admit that we are patriots.

Language is a powerful thing. This is but one example of how they have tried to make the language theirs and define us through their use of it. Newt Gingrich was a master at it, but he didn't invent the it by a long shot.