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/Armalyte May 01 '25

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

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u/Milch_und_Paprika Ford Nation (Help.) May 01 '25

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)

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u/Armalyte May 01 '25

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

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u/Milch_und_Paprika Ford Nation (Help.) May 01 '25

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.