<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, May 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM Steffen Nurpmeso <<a href="mailto:steffen@sdaoden.eu">steffen@sdaoden.eu</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">This entire thing was then removed with the words "Here it smells<br>
like red socks", referring to a decade old (around Y2K) right-wing<br>
aka republican propaganda tour against "red socks". (In Germany<br>
left wing is red, right wing is black/blue.)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Red was also traditionally considered the color of the left wing, especially Communism, here in the US. During the 1950s the start of the Cold War led to a lot of fear of pro-Soviet Communists taking over Us government and private institutions. This was known as the Red Scare. The slogan among the most militant anti-Communists was "better dead than Red".</div><div><br></div><div>Somehow this color scheme got switched around in the current liberal vs. conservative ideological divide. Red is now the color of the right wing and Blue is the color of the left wing. I don't know why that change happened.</div><div><br></div><div>-Paul W.<br></div></div></div>