Posted on 05/05/2010 8:54:20 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
bump for later
“Not ripping the guy who posted this, but the author of the piece: It is the DEMOCRAT party not the democratic party.”
Actually, I think you are incorrect. It’s the Democratic Party and a member is a Democrat. I’d be careful throwing the ‘idiot’ word around, LOL.
“The Democratic Party”
Well it isn’t one or the other consistently then.
In the sentence, “When the democrats caucus, it’s a field day for nuts.” you would never say “democratics caucus”.
I mean even look at their website address: democrats.org.
Not democratics.org!
I think they use this to imply theirs is inherently a ‘democratic’ party when it isn’t, and that any other party isn’t. The Democrat party makes a hell of a lot more sense to call them. we call them democrats. The Southern Democrats, not Southern Democratics. Anytime they are discussed by anyone it’s “Well what should the democrats do?”
Except when the word “Party” is behind the word Democrat, we have no “ic” added to it. Seems that ain’t right. We hear and use “Democrat” far, far more often than the other.
But to me it’s a whole Bolshevik (majority) party vs Menshevik (minority) party issue. If you say it that way, it makes it sound like they are the only party that’s democratic. It’s actually hypocritical to say it that way.
It is a matter of usage. When referring to a person or people, it’s democrat or democrats. When referring to the party, it’s Democratic. Kind of like saying someone is Chinese. You wouldn’t say they are citizens of Chinese, they are citizens of China. But when referring to a specific person or persons, they are Chinese.
The difference here is it’s a word that doesn’t ONLY describe a political party, it’s a word that has its own definition, as a form of government. They get a boost from the other actual definition when people say “Democratic”, you automatically think ‘fair election process’ or something like that. You don’t get any kind of similar bump from “Republican” - who the hell thinks “Republic” and thinks “OH they are rule of law folks” nowadays? Hardly anyone knows we are a Constitutional Republic, or what being a Republic means. (FAR superior to a democracy but if you are a dumb ass public school kid or journalist, you’ll be thinking a democracy is the highest form of government around.)
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