03-24-2018, 07:53 AM
(03-24-2018, 02:08 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: Red is still associated with communism and other reactionary forms of government. The Democratic party still seems pretty pinko to me. From a liberal marketing stand point, blue is better choice of color to use for the Democratic party. I think it was a very clever move to switch the Democratic color from Red to Blue. Blue is much more appealing and doesn't have the stigma associated with red.
The change, if there ever was a change, was more the media's than the Democrats. Red, white and blue are patriotic colors for Americans. White is rather bland. Red is definitely patriotic to communists. It is rather ironic that after the Republicans got milage out of fighting the communists during the Cold War they end up sharing a color. There are just not enough good patriotic colors to go around?
I remember taking an X Windows class, and the instructor going on about what colors should be included in the list of X Window colors. In particular, he obsessed with X Windows not including chartreuse. I looked it up, and found they did. Not only was it included, it was a basic color as defined. I think it was 0, 255, 255, max settings for all three basic colors except... Red.
You will have to have the Republicans emphasize chartreuse in their advertising.
As the token Whig, I find it amusing that the Republicans and Communists ended up sharing a color. I consider both to be the opposite of progressive, of Whig, clinging to old values and economic theories. They cling to different old value systems, true, but older none the less.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.