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21185471? ago

I can remember a time when applying the term Red to a person or entity meant socialist/communist. Then suddenly, and ironically (or calculatingly), networks in unison standardized on the colors Blue to Democrats and Red to Republicans on election maps. I can't remember the exact year -- 2000 maybe with Bush?. This was jarring t me, because it was extremely ironic and a fait accompli. Democrats had been running more leftists beginning, in my memory, with Eugene McCarthy. Democrat should be Red because they are more and more openly socialist.