THE WORD IS DEMOCRATIC

Republicans began calling the opposition party "the Democrat Party" about a year ago and the name has become a rallying cry for Conservatives and Fox News talking heads who use it to denigrate and mock those Americans who do not consider themselves Republicans or Independents. You can catch smarmy Fox pundits and their smarmy guests every night of the weekday week talking about the "Democrat Party" or the way "Democrat members of Congress" do their jobs. The word is a cudgel used by these Republicans to communicate to their audience that Democrat(s) are somehow less worthy than their opposite side of the aisle Republican colleagues. That they are silly, or uninformed, dangerous to the fabric that holds America together.

This has been going on so long, this egregious bastardization of language that even many in the media have adopted the expression, probably forgetting where it came from, that it was a talking point issued with malice and forethought by the leaders of the Republican Party all those many months ago.

Well, here's an idea. Why don't the members of the "Democrat Party" start to use expressions like "Republicants" or "Republicos" when referring to the Republican Party and its partisans? How do you think that would go over with the Hannitys and Ingrahams of the world? My guess is those folks would consider that sort of talk very disrespectful and we all know how much the Republicans treasure respect, especially when they want to receive it. 

It's time to move past this disgusting Republican mangling of a perfectly acceptable word. On November 3, Republicans across America may need to get used to using the word properly. The word is "Democratic." You know, as in America is a "democratic" country?