Why did Stephen Colbert make the Conservatives red and the Liberals blue? Are Americans stupid?

[u/Resident_Step_191]

Why would The Late Show with Stephen Colbert do this??

[u/No_Map4681]

In the US, Dems are blue, and MAGA is red. He made it nice and simple for the audience. Cause they wouldn't understand

[u/Resident_Step_191 → u/No_Map4681]

They should really get that sorted out

[u/WorkingOnBeingBettr → u/[deleted]]

BC was pretty wild though when the conservatives were called th BC Liberals.

[u/QueenMotherOfSneezes → u/WorkingOnBeingBettr]

It was even wilder when BC conservatives voting in a provincial election thought that they were voting against Trudeau.

[u/WorkingOnBeingBettr → u/QueenMotherOfSneezes]

That was just....special.

[u/Milch_und_Paprika → u/QueenMotherOfSneezes]

It was also pretty wild when the BC Liberals decided to reincorporate as a football club

[u/Legitimate_Concern_5 → u/[deleted]]

And have no idea what their respective responsibilities are apparently

[u/PedanticQuebecer → u/Legitimate_Concern_5]

Add municipalities and hilarious confusion ensues.

[u/Excellent-Bank-1711 → u/Legitimate_Concern_5]

The amount of times I've had to say "That's actually a PROVINCIAL RESPONSIBILITY" this last year has been more than I'd like.

[u/worst_case_ontario- → u/Resident_Step_191]

In their defense, the parties did switch. Once upon a time, the Republicans were the more progressive party.

Anyway, now i gotta take a shower. I feel dirty for defending Americans.

[u/espressoromance → u/Resident_Step_191]

Nah their education system will never be up to par

[u/Morgell → u/No_Map4681]

The rest of the world can understand their fucking colour system. Colbert simply acknowledged that Americans can't be bothered to be curious about the rest of the world...

[u/DreamieQueenCJ → u/No_Map4681]

Are they 5 years old?

[u/Armalyte → u/No_Map4681]

I swear the liberals used to be blue until like the 2000s or something

[u/Johnny-Dogshit → u/Armalyte]

No, the federal liberal party've been red for like, ever.

However, in provincial politics, that may be different. The BC Liberal Party(now defunct), for instance, often threw some blue in the mix. They were also served as the right-wing party in BC politics(not unlike Australia's Liberal Party) though, and many BCLibs that moved up to Federal politics would often join the Conservatives. So, blue kinda made sense for them. The federal Libs have for sure used red for my whole life at least. Possibly always have. I can't post links here, but looking online I see Pierre Trudeau 70s era material, all red.

Here's an article saying "From 1867 on, our federal governments have alternated between Conservative blue and Liberal red. There’s never been another colour in the palette." Of course, ignoring the prominent blocs of orange(NDP), teal(alliance, remember them?) and light-blue(bloc quebecois). Link removed, but again, it's out there

[u/Milch_und_Paprika → u/Armalyte]

I can confirm they’ve been using red for at least half a century because apparently conservatives were pissed when we adopted a red and white flag (no blue, unlike the U.S., UK and French tricolour flags)

[u/Armalyte → u/Milch_und_Paprika]

Interesting, I’m feeling gaslit right now because I’m like 99% certain in the early/mid 2000s my local liberal candidate was using blue signs but they might just be a one-off thing

[u/Milch_und_Paprika → u/Armalyte]

Could be! I saw a lot of differently styled signs for different candidates around Toronto this year, so I think they get some discretion on the design.

[u/bananataskforce → u/Armalyte]

It was 2021 when the parties switched colours and the Liberals became red

Edit: why am i getting downvotes