In America, the conservative party is red and the liberal is blue, but in Canada the liberal party is red whole the conservatives are blue.
Isn’t american party colors backwards compared to most western countries?
Yeah, it’s a whole thing about neither party wanting to be red during the cold war so news outlets would randomize it until the 2000 election when cable news was involved. People watched a highly contested election 24 hours a day for weeks and just got used to thinking of red as Republican and blue as Democrat. It stuck ever since.
Yep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_colour
Parties in different countries with similar ideologies sometimes use similar colours. As an example, the colour red symbolizes ideologies further to the left of the political spectrum, sometimes referred to as left-wing politics. In some countries this has also been associated with Communism (leading to the use of such terms as “Red Army” and “Red Scare”). The colour blue is often used for conservatism, politics that lie further to the right of the political spectrum, and thus referred to as “right of centre” or “right wing” politics. In more recent years, the colour yellow has been commonly associated with liberalism and right-libertarianism, while the colour green has an association with Green politics so-named after the ideology’s choice of that colour and concern with environmental issues, also commonly described as being green.[2][3]
Yes. This thread is pretty baffling to me to say the least. I wonder if OP is aware there‘s a whole world out there.
Because there is only oil to steal and other governments to topple outside of america
Makes sense, America is pretty backwards compared to most western countries, so might as well flip the colors
America does everything back-assward. Red is the color of labor and socialism, historically.
The color assignments happened by chance. The networks used to arbitrarily choose red or blue or even some other color for each party to show them on the maps, and one network might use different colors than another. Then one year (2000), a year that they were showing R’s as red and D’s as blue, the colors stuck and stayed that way–probably because the counting went on for so long that year.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-became-red-democrats-became-blue-104176297/
There are plenty of articles online about the subject. I’m old so I remember it myself.
So they are really that retarded then huh? I believed that they were the right colours until the democrats became the “progressive” and the republicans went full conservative. Because of that switch it reversed the traditional colours of left and right.
And in Australia, the Liberals are the Conservatives.
Because they’re upside down?
This seems like it should be expected.
Liberally Conservative and Conservatively Conservative
In the Netherlands too, and their colour is orange (VVD).
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I mean even in American not-so-far history it was all about “red scare” and stuff.
Alternative title: USians use different colours than the rest of the world for political parties.
Y’all afraid of commies but you’ve never seen the USSR flag?
But republicans use American Red.
Symbolises the blood of immigrants and trans folk (probably).
*Coca cola red
Yes, and it’s the US that is unusual. Red is the historical color of social-democratic, socialist and communist parties.
There is a video explaining the history of US party colors here: https://youtu.be/lgz3p4cEXZU
Americas political parties have flipped and flopped and swapped multiple times.
The US didn’t use colours for political leanings until 2000 when this whole blue, red, and purple terminology started in earnest. And using red for the conservative side is certainly unique.
Red has traditionally been the colour of socialism/social democrats. All the other colour assignments tend to vary by country. But blue or black or thereabouts tends to be conservative. Green introduced itself in the 70s.
Canada is just normal in terms of “political colours.”
I was surprised by this, too, moving to New Zealand. Down here National (the
centercentre-right party) is a light blue color, while Labour is a red-orange. But then there’s ACT (further right than National), which uses a pink color, and NZ First (even further right than ACT), which uses a dark blue color.Incidentally, it’s an election year here, too; and from what I’ve gathered, NZ First (the furthest-right of the major parties in New Zealand) somehow manages to still be further left than American Republicans on most issues. National is further left than American Democrats.
In America, the conservative party is red and the liberal is blue
I REMEMBER THE BEFORE TIMES! The long long ago! When not all was as it is today…
Ours weren’t set until 1992, I think. Blue used to mean incumbent and red was for the challenger.(I may have that backwards.)
In Quebec, almost all parties are shades of blue…
Not a coincidence.
Except the federal liberals also serve Quebec. Do they remember?
IIRC a US journalist invented it for the US. Republicans Red because they both start with R.
Ahh. Hence why the Bdemocrats are blue.
Could have beeen diolet.
Denimocrats. Levi’s blue, bruh!
I dunno, seems fitting to me.
Democrats are a Conservative blue.
Republicans are a Nazi red.
Oh dear
