29 May
2025
29 May
'25
2:23 p.m.
On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <steffen(a)sdaoden.eu> wrote:
This entire thing was then removed with the words
"Here it smells
like red socks", referring to a decade old (around Y2K) right-wing
aka republican propaganda tour against "red socks". (In Germany
left wing is red, right wing is black/blue.)
Red was also traditionally considered the color of the left wing,
especially Communism, here in the US. During the 1950s the start of the
Cold War led to a lot of fear of pro-Soviet Communists taking over Us
government and private institutions. This was known as the Red Scare. The
slogan among the most militant anti-Communists was "better dead than Red".
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.
-Paul W.