This bothers me.
The Left has always chosen the color red going back to Soviet days.
As we speak conservatism has allowed itself to be branded with the same color. The polarization is similar the the 1917 Russian revolution: the empire collapsed. The two major factions were the Bosheviks and the Mesheviks. In Russian bolshoi means big and menshei mean smaller.
We have allowed the left to define the isue again.
You got a point.
I tell people this communism is red, socialism is pink, they are twins!