Small v Big Minds

Fivethirtyeight had a pretty good piece on the Republican use of the term Democrat Party rather than Democratic Party.

Being a former government worker I usually don't subscribe myself to the whole public service, honor, serving your country stuff. Politics is a dog-eat-dog world and the faster you realize that the better you are.

Still there should be some proper rules when it comes to discourse and calling your opponent by the correct terminalogy should be one of them.

Its like calling everyone who disagrees with you a Nazi. All it does is demean yourself and reduce impact of really Nazis.

As a I am Russian Orthodox it is personally insulting when someone uses the term Nazi or Communist. Nazis and Leninists are evil. More Russians died at the hands of the Nazis than anyone group of people in any war in human history. Communists (which are actually Leninist) slaughtered priests and destroyed a church that's still trying to find itself.

Anyway, sorry about the rant. The point is Republicans use of the term "Democrat Party" makes the Democratic Party look more patrician and separates themselves from the general population. Basically the Republicans use the term to separate the Democrats from their base.