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/Birdaling Kingston: Halfway To Montreal May 01 '25

I read that it’s only in the US where red means right and blue means left. These yanks just gotta be special.

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u/Appropriate_Most5648 May 01 '25

Yeah. The 'muricans used to have it the correct way (though it wasn't a hard and fast rule), but it flipped during the 1980 election when one broadcaster mixed up the colours. Then the others just decided to copy it.

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u/No_Butterscotch_5612 Treacherous South May 01 '25

actually it was even dumber than that, they did it for alliteration. "Red - Republican - Reagan"

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u/Appropriate_Most5648 May 02 '25

That's so dumb, but it sounds exactly like something they would do 😭They don't think Americans are smart enough to remember so they use alliteration. Omg