If you Aim that Grassroots at Me One More Time...

There are certain things that irritate me. I know that statement in itself shocks you. But with this lovely election season upon us, I've been noticing people dropping grassroots in at every possible opportunity. Um, really? REALLY?? It's grassroots? Which is why you have a nationally aired commercial? Wow, those are some rich roots you are pulling from. Because if understand correctly, grassroots means it starts with the people in local communities, blah blah blah. So really, all kinds of crazy causes could be "grassroots" efforts. That doesn't mean they are not CRAZY. And it troubles me that possibly someone might vote for something based on that word. You could probably call the American Revolution a grassroots thing. And, you know, that turned out kind of good. But, um, you could also call certain racist groups with silly titles and costumes grassroots, because they probably started small with just a few idiots and grew from there. So, could we stop with the grassroots? That term kind of irritates me. It's a little too... not grassroots. Commercial and stupid.