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part of my job is doing illustrations for magazines and weeklies. recently i got a gig doing an illustration for coverage of the RNC. one hitch was, because of production/time restrictions, i needed to have the art work finished before the writer submitted the article. not a problem, i'd just keep things politically vague and use established GOP imagery. so i went to work designing up elephants in dramatic poses in a heavily red color palette and......... they were all looking like communist revolution posters!
i'm independent so it doesn't matter to me but i'm curious about the thoughts of conservatives on this one. does it bother you that a color traditionally used to represent communism ("better dead than red") now (since 2000) represents conservatives?
The funny thing about that is the United States is one of the very few nations where the color red represents a Conservative party. Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide was considered a "sea of Blue" at the time, as blue traditionally represented the incumbent party whereas red was the aggressor party. What changed all of that was the 2000 election since the controversy put the whole red vs. blue issue at the center stage for a lengthy period of time, coupled with the 1996 election where Republicans were also represented with red (as Clinton was the incumbent). Ever since then red has become the color assigned to the Republican party vs. blue for the Democrats. Backwards? Perhaps. But it has become somewhat of an American tradition since 1996.
As a conservative it does not really bother me, in fact it represents another aspect of American distinction from other modern powers.
part of my job is doing illustrations for magazines and weeklies. recently i got a gig doing an illustration for coverage of the RNC. one hitch was, because of production/time restrictions, i needed to have the art work finished before the writer submitted the article. not a problem, i'd just keep things politically vague and use established GOP imagery. so i went to work designing up elephants in dramatic poses in a heavily red color palette and......... they were all looking like communist revolution posters!
i'm independent so it doesn't matter to me but i'm curious about the thoughts of conservatives on this one. does it bother you that a color traditionally used to represent communism ("better dead than red") now (since 2000) represents conservatives?
Just do not draw a hammer and sickle on those elephants.
The funny thing about that is the United States is one of the very few nations where the color red represents a Conservative party. Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide was considered a "sea of Blue" at the time, as blue traditionally represented the incumbent party whereas red was the aggressor party. What changed all of that was the 2000 election since the controversy put the whole red vs. blue issue at the center stage for a lengthy period of time, coupled with the 1996 election where Republicans were also represented with red (as Clinton was the incumbent). Ever since then red has become the color assigned to the Republican party vs. blue for the Democrats. Backwards? Perhaps. But it has become somewhat of an American tradition since 1996.
As a conservative it does not really bother me, in fact it represents another aspect of American distinction from other modern powers.
The color schemes denoting each party came directly from the TV news media making maps of states as they micro-analyze every tiny detail of the primaries and elections. It was a TV producer's choice that stuck and was copied by everybody else to avoid confusion. Now we have debates about red states vs. blue states... there's even a movie called Red State. It's here to stay.
The funny thing about that is the United States is one of the very few nations where the color red represents a Conservative party. Ronald Reagan's 1984 landslide was considered a "sea of Blue" at the time, as blue traditionally represented the incumbent party whereas red was the aggressor party. What changed all of that was the 2000 election since the controversy put the whole red vs. blue issue at the center stage for a lengthy period of time, coupled with the 1996 election where Republicans were also represented with red (as Clinton was the incumbent). Ever since then red has become the color assigned to the Republican party vs. blue for the Democrats. Backwards? Perhaps. But it has become somewhat of an American tradition since 1996.
As a conservative it does not really bother me, in fact it represents another aspect of American distinction from other modern powers.
I recall that and it ws a bit confusing afterwards.
Yes backwards.
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