Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

I'm going to be shocking and launch this week's Magic Monday a few minutes early, since I'm here on Dreamwidth,. (The picture is Thomas Taylor, the great Regency-era Platonist and worshiper of the Greek Gods, godfather of the modern Neopagan revival)

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Comments

color symbolism

[ritaer]

Do you think there is an occult significance to the recent reversal of color symbolism in the U.S.? By which I mean that when I was growing up, and up through the 70s at least, Red=communist, socialist, left-wing, etc. and Blue= right wing, patriotic (as in true-blue). The association of red with communist was so strong that when Nixon ran for Congress in the 50s he used slightly pink paper to print attacks on his opponent, implying that her politics were socialist.

Then at some point I started seeing references to red states and blue states with these values reversed so that red now equals Republican, conservative, right-wing and blue now equals Democratic, liberal and left-wing. I think this happened in the 80s, but maybe a little later. Given the emotive power of colors, it seems as if this change should mean something, but I can't figure out what.

Re: color symbolism

[ecosophia]

It's really fascinating to watch. Have you noticed that as that happened, the Democrats turned into the party of the elite and the Republicans started becoming the populist party? Now we've got Democrats praising the CIA, insisting that freedom of speech is a bad idea, and blaming everything on Russia, the way Republicans did in 1950. Flip the colors, flip the opinions...

Re: color symbolism

[(Anonymous)]

The change of red standing for Republicans came after the hotly disputed 2000 election, where the red, white, and blue electoral map got shown ad nauseum on TV. Before 2000 they rotated the colors, after 2000 they were fixed. Of course this could reflect deeper things...
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