Red vs Blue is nothing new for the USA

Reading other blogs got me to thinking. . .

One of the blogs recorded the truth that the USA was founded on progressive ideas. Well, yeah, freedom of religion, everyone has the same rights, that men don't need a sovereign to be governed or to have a government at all. The people can and should chose. (Okay that idea wasn't new many ancient societies had that. In Rome pre empire there evolved a system where by all the people, rich and poor, chose who would lead for a set period of time - and it's kind of chilling when look at parallels from their government at that time and the aristocracy wresting back their control and apply it to what has been happening in the last 6 years with the Republicans in charge)

Anyway that germ of an intellectual gem triggered something and I realized that red vs blue is nothing new in this country. And that maybe by Divine Hand blue was also the color of progressive thought and ideals that created this country.

Viola:

The Battle of Lexington(MA), April 19th. 1775.

The RED coats (British) vs the Continental Army whose uniform was BLUE . ......
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So it would seem that even in history the color blue and progressive thought go together.

Hmmmmm, interesting.