And now, for a bit of the lunch-time snark
Dear Mainstream Media,
I suppose it started off as a merely functional consideration – you needed colors for the map, and needed to utilize the traditional “red, white, and blue” motif. And in those heady days following the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November 2000, it’s to be expected that we’d let this misappropriation slide.
But it’s 4 and a half years and two election cycles later. So, on behalf of my fellow leftists, I’m politely asking you, please, please, give us the color red back.
In a conversation with a European colleague the other day, he made reference to the fact that a large chunk of middle America had gone socialist. Shaking my head, I had to clue him in on the fact that no longer is red the color of the revolution.
“Better dead than red?” They used to be talking about us!
“Pinko commies?” That doesn’t even make sense anymore.
“Red Emma?” Now come on. Once you bring Emma Goldman into it, it’s just silly.
All of our anarchist friends laugh at us now. I keep threatening to have the Democrats take black from them, but they just laugh harder, noting that black has never, ever been accepted on the American palette.
So now, here we are in the lull between election cycles. The “red state” money has been made. Would it be too much to ask to choose another color for the right next year? Maybe a nice shade of yellow? Or brown? But not red. Too many of our international brethern are confused. And dammit, haven’t you taken enough from us? Please, we’ll turn our backs, and if the color red is back on our desk when we turn around, we’ll let the whole thing drop, no questions asked.
We hope you find it in your hearts to return to us leftists our beloved color red.
Sincerely,
A whole gaggle of red-blooded redder than red leftists.
cross-posted at jScoop
