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let's check:
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I have your education right here:
The Color of Political Parties
In order to make political reporting more interesting, and to help viewers more easily discern the leanings of a particular party, colors are often assigned according to the party’s ideology.
Black
Because of its association with Mussolini’sCamicie Nere (Blackshirts) as well as Hitler’sSchutzstaffel (SS), internationally black typically designates a fascist or anarchic party. In the 1960s and 70s in the U.S., however, the socialist Black Panther Party (BPP) adopted black for its color.
Blue
Unlike in the USA, conservative parties internationally are typically identified with blue. This tradition is reputed to have begun in Great Britain where the Tories adopted blue as their color circa 1900 in response to Labour’s use of red.
Green
In the Muslim world, because green was Mohammed’s favorite color, it is frequently adopted by Islamist political parties. Hamas, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran all use green on their flags.
In other places, particular Western Europe and the Americas, green is used to designate environmental parties, such as the Green Party of the United States.
Red
As with blue, the rest of the world typically uses red to designate a more liberal, left-leaning party, including everything from progressive and pro-labor parties to socialists and communists. This tradition apparently began with the French revolution of 1848, when a red flag was used to “represent the blood of angry workers.”
Party Color in the USA
Pre 2000
Consistent with international usage, until quite recently conservative groups in the United States were affiliated with blue, and left-leaning groups were designated red. So well-accepted were these denominations that following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917, and then again during the 1950s when Senator Joseph McCarthy conducted a witch hunt against supposed American communists, these events were known as the 1st and 2nd Red Scare- times when the “right” were “scared out of their wits”, according to two time Pulitzer Prize winner Walter Lippmann (who incidentally was the first to outline the concept of the “Cold War”, as well as introduced the modern psychological definition of “stereotype”, which previous to his usage was primarily a printing press term for a duplicating printing plate).
Red remained a pejorative in American political discourse throughout much of the 20th century because of its association with communism, and neither party would voluntarily associate with it. As NBC’s Chuck Todd said:
For years, both parties would do red and blue maps, but they always made the other guys red . . . . During the Cold War, who wanted to be red?
Things began to change when the ability of news outlets to display graphical information leapt forward in the 1970s. When reporting the results of the Presidential election of 1976, Time magazine’s electoral mapdesignated states won by Republican Gerald Ford as white and those won by Democrat Jimmy Carter as red; however, for the next election (1980), Time’s editors had switched the colors, such that states won by the Democratic incumbent were white and those won by Republican Ronald Regan were red. Presumably, the more vibrant color was intended to identify the winner of the election, rather than its ideology.
For its coverage of the 1980 Presidential election, NBC’s broadcast included an electoral map that designated states carried by the Republican candidate as blue and those won by the Democrat as red. Anchor David Brinkley described Reagan’s landslide victory of that year by referencing the graphic: “It’s beginning to look like a suburban swimming pool.” NBC maintained these colors for the respective parties until the Presidential election of 2000.
The other networks forged their own paths when covering Presidential elections. In 1976, ABC used blue for states won by the Democratic candidate and yellow for the Republican, but by 1984, it had switched the Republican color to red. CBS designated Democratic wins with red and Republican with blue in 1980, but then flipped them in 1984. As Vice-Presidential candidate for the Democratic party, Geraldine Ferraro described the reporting of the 1984 election: “One network map of the United States was entirely blue for the Republicans. . . . On another network, the color motif was a blanket of red.”
The Origin of the Red State/Blue State Dichotomy
So ubiquitous in today’s political discourse, many assume that the red state/blue state distinction has been around as long as we have had Republicans and Democrats. In fact, the opposite is true – the dichotomy is relatively young, having only become settled with the Presidential election of...www.todayifoundout.com
So is MAGA communist or fascist?
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1. Man, I bet that really scared you guys....the thought that folks might know the reality....
2. "The choice of colors in this divide is counter-intuitive to many international observers, as throughout the world, red is commonly the designated color for parties representing labor, socialist, and/or liberal interests [5] [6], which in the United States would be more closely correlated with the Democratic Party. Similarly, blue is used in these countries to depict conservative parties which in the case of the United States would be a color more suitable for the Republicans. For example, in Canada party colors are deeply ingrained and historic and have been unchanged during the Twentieth Century. Red states and blue states - Wikipedia
3. Red is traditionally associated with socialism and communism. The oldest symbol of socialism (and, by extension, communism) is the Red Flag, which dates back to the revolutions of 1848. The colour red was chosen to represent the blood of the workers who died in the struggle against capitalism. All major socialist and communist alliances and organisations – including the First, Second, and Third Internationals – used red as their official colour. The association between the colour red and communism is particularly strong. Communists use red much more often and more extensively than other ideologies use their respective traditional colours.
In Europe and Latin America, red is also associated with parties of social democracy, and often their allies within the labour movement. Sometimes these parties use pink instead, as a "moderate" colour instead of the more "radical" red.
In the United States, since the year 2000, the mass media have associated red with the Republican Party, despite the fact that the Republican Party is a conservative-leaning party. Since at least 2010, the party has adopted an all red logo.
Political colour - Wikipedia
Why don't you simply admit how proud you are to stand with the Bolsheviks, Nazis and Maoists?
So, I'll just ask you directly because you aren't picking up on the clues. Why did Trump choose red hats?
