http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025771322It seems like even the littlest things are setting the primitives off today. I wonder why that is?

This is really a two-part thread. Enjoy:
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:24 PM
HockeyMom (12,594 posts)
My Married, DEMOCRAT daughter is fighting with her Republican Married Friends
Stupid idiots. They cannot understand why SHE did not vote for Republicans because she has a HUSBAND who supports her and her son. She tried to inform them why, and her husband is a Democrat also, but to no avail. So as her mother, I got on that FB page, and gave them MY two cents. You young women are totally CLUELESS what life was like 50 years ago, let alone even 20 years ago. Just wait. You will see, mark my words, as a woman old enough to be your mother ALSO. I LIVED discrimination. You never have. If you don't want to believe my daughter, believe me, or you will find out yourself at your own peril; wedding ring or not.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:26 PM
Star Member cali (96,564 posts)
1. just a note: It's not ever ever ever "DEMOCRAT". It's "DEMOCRATIC"
Please do not use repuke language.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:30 PM
Star Member malaise (124,616 posts)
4. +1,000
I hate it
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:31 PM
RebelOne (30,255 posts)
6. I always say I am a Democrat,
and say I am part of the Democratic party. What is wrong with her use of Democrat?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:48 PM
Star Member Blanks (2,433 posts)
14. Me too. I always vote for the democrats, and the democratic candidates.
I think folks are getting carried away to the point of being incorrect.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 07:21 PM
Star Member SheilaT (16,196 posts)
20. Because in the headline, the D word is an adjective, modifying the noun "daughterr"
and Democratic is the adjectival version of the noun Democrat.
Now if she'd said, My daughter is a Democrat, that would be okay. But not Democrat daughter.
(stepping down from my grammar step stool)
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 07:28 PM
yourout (6,507 posts)
24. So if there had been a comma after "Democrat" then it would have been proper?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 07:23 PM
Star Member mattclearing (9,993 posts)
21. Democrat is not an adjective. nt
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:33 PM
yourout (6,507 posts)
7. That is actually the correct context. I would describe myself as a Democrat.
Democratic is an adjuctive describing someone or something.
Democrat is a noun. IE...I am a Democrat.
Awwwwh, poor DUmmies! You gonna cry??
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nRSOvscgAs[/youtube]
back to the OP's topic:
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:28 PM
Star Member upaloopa (4,965 posts)
2. More and more it is becoming clear to me that
the battles that we fought and won in the 60's and 70's hold no relevance for younger people.
Those born during the conservative revolution don't have a clue.
No, the problem for your party is they DO have a clue.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:29 PM
Star Member lpbk2713 (25,909 posts)
3. I have friends and family of the rightie persuasion.
You have my sympathies. I avoid any in depth political discussions
with them because I know you can't fix that kind of stupid.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:34 PM
Star Member mnhtnbb (14,485 posts)
9. My husband is right now visiting family in Georgia. Yes, right wing.
When he left he asked me what he should tell them why I wasn't coming.
I told him to say "I've developed an allergy to Republicans. They make me
unable to say anything but swear words."
I just couldn't do it, especially with the election yesterday. I can just
imagine how repressed and depressed he's going to be when he gets home
tomorrow.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 07:01 PM
Star Member Hortensis (138 posts)
17. That's the simple truth. I never changed a conservative mind in 40 years pointing out
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facts and problems with the lies they loved to embrace.
Your daughter might take the advice I finally, belatedly did and learn to explain her VALUES even people determined to misunderstand will have trouble dismissing, preferably by using terms that reverberate strongly with them. As a social scientist points out, "All politics is moral, and morality trumps policy." So state values and their moral basis briefly -- using their language -- and absolutely refuse to muddy the message by criticizing or responding to arguments. Repeat as often as possible.
This is a positive approach that Elizabeth Warren employs a LOT. As in "No one who works full time should live in poverty."
Others could be your daughter's version of,
Empowering women strengthens society.
It is our duty to protect our nation and our children from the threat of global warming.
It is our duty to correct the extreme inequality of income that is destabilizing our nation and threatening our children's future.
Taxes are how citizens pay their share of being Americans.
You could have spared us all the BS, and ended your post at the subject line.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 07:39 PM
liberal_at_heart (8,195 posts)
27. I'm not sure how you appeal to a group of women that see themselves as submissive to their
husbands. I can relate to their circumstances but not their mentality. I have been married and a stay at home mom for 20 years. But I don't see myself as submissive in any way, so I have no idea where they are coming from and have no idea how we are supposed to appeal to them. Maybe they get so defensive because in their religion and culture it is the man's responsibility to make the money and they are discouraged from working. Therefore, their husband's paycheck is their only security and when your security is seemingly attacked you get defensive. But I don't understand how addressing equal pay hurts a man's paycheck unless that is a lie the conservatives have been telling their women which I have no doubt they do.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:34 PM
LittleBlue (6,822 posts)
8. You're right. Unfortunately longer perspectives are often lost on the young
In general, chastising young people for not appreciating something that happened a long time ago is not effective. It's so difficult to comprehend without having lived through it.
Our main struggle is to make Democrats relevant to the younger generation. We've done it on a few issues. Unfortunately it seems we're turning more and more to the lesser evil appeal, which I think is far less effective on young people.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:48 PM
badtoworse (5,669 posts)
13. That is unfortunate. Friendships are too important to allow politics to ruin them.
If you have a half a dozen true friends in life, you are blessed. I would never let politics cost me one and none of my true friends would either.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 07:30 PM
HockeyMom (12,594 posts)
25. I have not talked to my husband's niece in 3 years
because of her religious stance on gays. Her twin brother, older sister, and my daughter are gay. If she can bash her own flesh and blood because of her religion, as her NON flesh and blood in-law, I want nothing to do with her.
Finally, back to the first part of the thread:
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 07:31 PM
randys1 (3,785 posts)
26. DemocartIC daughter, DemocratIC daughter
DemocratIC daughter
DemocratIC daughter
DemocratIC daughter
DemocratIC daughter
DemocratIC daughter
DemocratIC daughter
DemocratIC daughter
and I see above that Rove and his word smiths now have us arguing about it, how ****ing pathetic
Rove, you genius!