You know what is comical

[Jherrith]

No matter who is president, and how good or bad they are, not one gives them any respect by calling them by their name


Yes I am guilty of that myself, but so is everyone else, so why is that ????


Interested in rational replies ...

[Wizzard]

Possible for those that voted for the errrmmm... person in an attempt to distance themselves from their error.
Those that didn't vote for the person feel no loyalty nor reason for respect. (especially when that one does government policy over social media).
And finally those that just want to be in on the joke.

Don't blame me, I voted for Davies.
Cheers

[thelufias]

I'd have to agree with you Wizzard.   Name calling has become a "THING" of late starting from the top down.  But it's nothing new.  All through out history it's been that way.    And others will follow....



NAME CALLING IN THE POLITICAL REALM


1."Subhuman" and "Disgusting"

Politicos routinely dehumanize their opponents. Whether the phrase is "subhuman mongrel", "œtroglodyte",  "Neanderthals", or even "pigs in a blanket", the suggestion is that the target is less than a person. Such language suggests that they can be treated with less than the respect that people deserve.

A variant of this is describing people as disgusting, as something foul that should be scraped up and thrown away. Good examples are the way Democrats and Republicans are called Scum of the Earth,  and the way politicians  frequently refers to their opponents as puke.

Unfortunately, there are cases where after being denigrated as something less than human that should be thrown away  some people have been treated as exactly that.

2. Straw Men and Caricatures

Maybe the most common thing that politicos do is misrepresent their opponents political views. If you take someone's reasonable position "We're spending too much money on roads“ and twist it just a touch “They believe we shouldn't spend any money on roads!“ you can make them seem ridiculous.

But, since you've falsified what your opponent believes, you're really just refuting a fake position; that is, knocking over a straw man.

While the slew of political fact-checkers out there are of some help in fighting these caricatures, even they can't keep up with the volume. We all just have to be eternally vigilant.

3."Evil" and/or "Stupid"

It's frustrating when we believe something strongly as with political and moral issues and then run into someone who disagrees with us. We typically resort to one of two derisive explanations for their divergent opinion.

The first is to conclude that they must be ignorant of what's right. But, since the truth is just so obvious (to us, anyway), our language has to capture the depth of their ignorance: they're "divorced from reality", "morons", "brain-dead" or "delusional." In other words, we slur them as being mentally deficient.

The second is to conclude that they're smart enough to know what's right, but that they choose to do what they know is wrong. In other words, we demonize them: we say they want to destroy the world (or maybe just the country); that they don't believe in helping others in need; that they don't want other people to be free, and so forth. There are any number of ways to (falsely) describe people as choosing to do evil.

Some pundits, however, don't feel the need to choose between these two explanations: they say their opponents are both evil and stupid.

4. "They Don't Care About Facts, Reason, Logic, or Truth"

But there's a more finessed way to accuse your political opponents of being both stupid and evil: accuse them of choosing stupidity in the name of evil.

For example, politicos often say that "facts don't matter" to their opponents; they stick to a position "regardless of evidence;" they're living in a "fact-free zone;" they're "anti-science, anti-factual," etc. Others go further, saying their opponents have adopted the "big lie" theory of the Nazis, where the more you repeat a lie, the more plausible it becomes.

Funnily enough, neither Adolf Hitler nor Joseph Goebbels ever advocated using a "big lie"; rather, they accused other people of using big lies against them. Ironic, huh?

5. Unpatriotic

Politics is concerned with the well-being of the nation. So, naturally, one of the preferred ways of demonizing opponents is to accuse them of siding against the country.

There are plenty of ways to question someone's patriotism: call them "unpatriotic" or "anti-American"; accuse them of wanting to weaken the country, or refusing to defend it; praise the "real" parts of America (as opposed to the fake ones); suggest that they put party before country. "Treason," "traitorous," and "betray" are also words that serve the purpose, along with the ubiquitous "take back America" campaign slogan.

Questioning someone's citizenship or deriding them for their immigrant status could also count as questioning someone's patriotism, but it's not like that would happen in an election year, would it?

Conclusion
Name-calling runs rampant in U.S. politics, and it's hardly limited to one side of the political spectrum. The more we denigrate each other as evil or unpatriotic, the less prepared we're going to be for those moments of crisis when, all of a sudden, we need to trust and depend on each other.

Politics should make us better people, not worse. When you hear this kind of rhetoric, head the other direction.

[Radkres]

 
History is Filled with The Unwashed masses Who gave colorful names to their and other leaders I think it is a way to humanize someone so out of reach to the common Man. The Thing with Past vs Current is this one tries to Empower the people Vs the past ones  Talking at the people.

[Jherrith]

Trying to empower the people vs talking at the people

There is the crux of the matter

[Jherrith]

The most recent funny thing I have noticed is a person I went to high school with that has gone total deaf in one ear and refuses to hear out the other.

They listen only as far as it fits their narrative. Their have been more then one article in which the president has condemn the violence and specific groups yet this person still claims that he has not done so ...

So sad .... I know people change over the years but man

Ah well, to each their own


Then there is the alternate names for Columbus Day, really Happy Native American day, Indigenous People Day

What is the problem with the incessant need to purge history of anything that a single or maybe group of people find offensive. It has been Columbus day for centuries and now all of a sudden its offensive and it should be changed

Give me a break, yes the white man raped an plundered a whole race I get that, but does one think by changing the name of the holiday, that it makes it all better?

Seriously ...

[Radkres]

it is Called a Cultural Revolution    Worked Great in China they want it to happen here too! 

[Radkres]

   Maybe this will Cover what your Acquaintance is having problems with.
Communists Attack Statues of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt in Portland

[Jherrith]

For those of you who speak a second language, the English word "horrible" in Finnish is Kamala

[Radkres]

   Well We all know the Finns are finished Now!