(03-05-2020, 09:20 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(03-05-2020, 08:17 AM)Last42min Wrote: Also, you can call a person a name based on one blunder. A pejorative, by its design, is meant to be negative. It's especially effective in the rhetorical world of politics. It's not an accident, so seems silly to even bring it up. It's not like there's an abundance of civility being heaped upon Trump.

When people want to make civility the principle that shapes politics, I'm all for it. I'm not, however, inclined to treat it like a serious argument when it's primarily used along party lines. It's either a principled position or it isn't. That goes both ways, Republican or Democrat.

RJ was definitely trying to make it go both ways, though. He was saying, you call her Pocahontas, I call him Captain bone spurs.