. . . but here’s what bothers me when Rush & GWB use phrases like “the Democrat Party” or “the Democrat candidate.”<\/p>\n
My friend Sue, an intelligent, cultured, well-traveled woman, doesn’t like the word “Jew.”\u00a0 She knows the word in and of itself is benign and neutral, like “Jewish” or “Christian,” but she doesn’t like it and won’t say it.\u00a0 I’ve been wondering why.<\/p>\n
To say that an adherent of the Jewish faith is a Jew is to use the word correctly.\u00a0 But we’ve all encountered people who misuse it, as in “the Jew religion” or “the Jew press.”\u00a0 When you hear the word misused that way, you know where the speaker’s coming from, and it isn’t anyplace good.\u00a0 It’s hate speech, and it’s intentional.\u00a0 That, I think, is the origin of Sue’s antipathy toward the word Jew.<\/p>\n
Similarly, when Rush & GWB call the Democratic Party the Democrat Party, they’re up to no good, and it’s intentional.\u00a0 That’s what bothers me.<\/p>\n
I wish, back when they were looking for a name, Jefferson and his pals had settled on something besides the Democratic Party.\u00a0 A lot of people today think it should be called the Progressive Party, although with the current crop of Democrats in the House and Senate, I see no hope of progress.\u00a0 Still, you couldn’t get away with calling a Progressive a Progress, could you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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