03-25-2018, 03:05 PM
(03-25-2018, 01:48 PM)David Horn Wrote:(03-24-2018, 07:53 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: 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.
Apparently, the assignments were made ad hoc during the 2000 election. Prior to that, blue was more common fro Republicans, but far from universal. Thank TV for casting the die on this one.
Blue was associated with nobility and capitalism; red with Communism and anything supporting socialism even at the level of FDR's New Deal. Never mind that the New Deal may have saved American capitalism...
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.