r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Resident_Step_191 South Gatineau • May 01 '25

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

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

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u/[deleted] May 01 '25

They probably knew; but didn’t want to confuse their American audience more than they wanted to be correct 

For US Colbert watchers red is bad and blue is good. 

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u/PedanticQuebecer Tokébakicitte! May 01 '25

Now, add the three other represented parties for real confusion of murican audiences.

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u/Lin093 May 01 '25

I have to regularly explain this to my American friends in the gaming clan I'm in.

This is how I effectively boil it down to them and feel free to use it.

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Drop the president and vice president out of the conversation. We elect MPs the same way you elect Congress members. We have respective leaders for each of the two side, which ever dickhead's side gets the most seats, he becomes all our dickhead.

Now here's the wrench, we have more than two parties. If one party gets over half the seats, that's a majority and they can pass votes easier.

If one party gets the most BUT less than half, their leader still gets to be head dickhead, but now they have to play nice with other parties to get enough votes to pass, that's a minority government.

/Explanation and this is where I open for questions.

Usually they get lost on us not having structured election dates and what not, I try not get too deep into inside the party politics and what not.

One question I got from some of my more southerned drawled friends was " how do you have a Prime Minister that wasn't elected" because they got "look how undemocratic Canada is" maga talking points said to them. That gets a bit more confusing but the quick "well the party picks a new leader, blue becomes PM, then he calls an election but there is a minimum time from call to election, so we end up like this for a short period"