31 May
2025
31 May
'25
5:11 a.m.
One could make a really good case right about now that:
a) Vladimir Putin is doing his best to put the band back together, and
b) Republicans are acting as extremely willing Russian assets, so therefore
c) Associating them with the red of Soviet Communism is pretty accurate.
On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM Chet Ramey via COFF <coff(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
On 5/29/25 10:23 AM, Paul Winalski wrote:
Somehow this color scheme got switched around in
the current liberal
vs.
conservative ideological divide. Red is now the
color of the right wing
and Blue is the color of the left wing. I don't know why that change
happened.
Gradual media conversion on those colors, finally cementing after CNN
ran a map after the 2000 election that had Republican states in red.