It’s deliberate. Republicans were blue until the media used Orwellian newspeak methods on Election Night 2000. Our side could’ve called them out on it, but didn’t. You never let your enemies label you. I’m not a damnable Red, that’s the Democrat Communist Party.
You are right. I’m old enough to remember that the media used to use blue for Republicans on Election Night, as in 1980:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsDe-8cOSYY
> Republicans were blue until the media used Orwellian newspeak methods on Election Night 2000. <
Yes. That’s a little-known fact. And it’s remarkable how the left has taken control of the language. The one that bothers me the most is the word “progressive” for left-wingers.
The implication is clear. The opposite of progressive is regressive. So if you’re not a “progressive”, you’re a primitive, backwards-thinking individual.