Jerry, you may have inadvertently raised another issue. Several times during your post you used the word "Democrat" in its Newspeak sense to refer to people who are Democratic or members of the Democratic Party.

I believe that this is something introduced by the Republicans several years ago to lessen the verbal relationship between Democrats and Democracy. Democrat, as in Democrat Party sounds more like an expletive than a descriptor.

On your main topic, I agree with you. There are far too many people and interest groups who use language to slice and dice us into easily managed, unthinking units.