The name of America’s leftist political party is Democrat, they’re the Democrat Party. The description
of a party or organization in America would be that it’s democratic in nature.
This doesn’t mean that the Democrat Party is democratic nor that it practices
democracy, but that’s their name. Democrat
is a noun and democratic is an
adjective that modifies a noun. To say some one or some party is democratic
means that they are in the form of a democracy, or they are democracy-like. No one would say that the Republican Party is
republican-like, so why would they say that Democrats are democracy-like. It’s
the old difference between a big “D” and a little “d”.
Too often all flavors of political talking heads, left
and right, refer to the “Democratic Party” doing this thing or that thing, when
they should simply say “The Democrat Party” did them. This is not a difficult distinction
to make and our smart-set talking heads should know better. In fact it’s
possible that this is just another verbal war won by Democrats, similar to “the
Republican war on women” or “Bush lied and people died” and such idiotic but
easy to say phrases that shape an argument before it’s even begun. If we wanted
to talk about people dying from a presidential lie, we’d coin the phrase “Obamacare
lied and people suffered and died, after going broke trying to pay for it” or
we’d say “Bush fought terrorism and we won the Iraq war, but Obama shied and
people died all over again when we left too soon”. The latter phrases are
neither short enough nor cleverly-enough assembled, and that’s why Republicans
are losing the verbal war with Democrats, even though the latter points are
true and the former Democrat phrases are lies.
To be quite truthful, the Democrat Party may be the
least “democratic” organization in America. When one considers that Hillary is
losing to Bernie in states won and delegates accumulated, but that Hillary is
ahead of Bernie in the actual delegate count when the super-delegates are
included, we find a lack of democracy being practiced by the Democrats.
And one should not confuse the difference between a
democracy and a representative republic. The primary elections and the caucuses
are examples of direct democracy because the votes of the individuals in the
various political organizations are supposed to immediately indicate who the
winner of the event is. On the other hand, America is a Representative Democracy
because we elect our representatives directly, who in turn either pass laws that
are not directly voted on by the public they represent or they elect the
president via the Electoral College which is also an indirect election path
from the people.
It’s a shame when a rube like myself has to correct
the spoken and written word of the elites in Washington and New York, but there
it is.
