Clicked on the link in the description to a site called "Red State" and was baffled to see an opinion poll come up with the question "Will you fight to defend America and the Constitution against socialism?". a moment of what the fuck... ensued then I realised the site was "red" in the American sense... where Red is the denoting colour for the Republican Right and latterly, batshit-thinking people inhabiting what in Europe would be the deep blue end of the spectrum. The USA inverts the colours, of course, and Blue becomes that of the not-quite-as-right-wing-as-the-other-party as well as that of the true Left. Takes some getting used to...
Clicked on the link in the description to a site called "Red State" and was baffled to see an opinion poll come up with the question "Will you fight to defend America and the Constitution against socialism?". a moment of what the fuck... ensued then I realised the site was "red" in the American sense... where Red is the denoting colour for the Republican Right and latterly, batshit-thinking people inhabiting what in Europe would be the deep blue end of the spectrum. The USA inverts the colours, of course, and Blue becomes that of the not-quite-as-right-wing-as-the-other-party as well as that of the true Left. Takes some getting used to...