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.
Makes sense, America is pretty backwards compared to most western countries, so might as well flip the colors
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
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.
In the Netherlands too, and their colour is orange (VVD).
Liberally Conservative and Conservatively Conservative
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
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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?
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…
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!
Oh dear
I disagree that US colors are wrong or that we misapply “liberal”. The DNC is pro-corporate and dig their heels in on any meaningful reforms for healthcare, workers rights, etc. They correlate to other liberal parties.
The problem is that the only other party of relevance is far right, so we treat the liberals as “left” by comparison. They have some progressives because there is nowhere else to go and have a reasonable chance to get elected or even be on the ballot above the local level.
It’s true that the history of the color distinction only goes back to 2000, and the people that made the choice were unlikely to think about it this way, but I think at least the blue is appropriate.
That’s also why DSA is red.
In summary, just Overton Window things.
I dunno, seems fitting to me.
Democrats are a Conservative blue.
Republicans are a Nazi red.
Ours weren’t set until 1992, I think. Blue used to mean incumbent and red was for the challenger.(I may have that backwards.)
does canada also have only two parties? well, RIP
Tell the Canadians to unswap them and use the right colors
