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Co-leader Catherine Murphy used purple as her personal colour when she was an independent politician, prior to the party's foundation in 2015. [75] [76] [77] In Italy, purple has been adopted by anti-Silvio Berlusconi protesters (see Purple People) as an alternative from other colours and political parties.
Purple states are also often referred to as "battleground" states. The demographic and political applications of the terms have resulted in a temptation to presume this arbitrary classification is a definite and fundamental cultural division. Given the general nature and common perception of the two parties, "red state" implies a conservative ...
The protests began on 4 December 2011 in the Russian capital of Moscow against the election results, leading to the arrests of over 500 people. On 10 December, protests erupted in tens of cities across the country; a few months later, they spread to hundreds both inside the country and abroad.
National political commentators will also refer to Wisconsin as a swing state or battleground state, because it's one of the truly competitive states that decide who wins the presidential election.
The district they are vying to represent is 67% Latino and spans a large swath of Central Valley agriculture. It encompasses all of Merced County and parts of Fresno, Madera, San Joaquin and ...
The Political Compass is a website soliciting responses to a set of 62 propositions in order to rate political ideology in a spectrum with two axes: one about economic policy (left – right) and another about social policy (authoritarian – libertarian). [1]
The red pill and blue pill are metaphorical terms representing a choice between learning an unsettling or life-changing truth by taking the "red pill" or remaining in the contented experience of ordinary reality with the "blue pill". In Freudian psychology, the corresponding principles are the reality principle and the pleasure principle. [1]
The Purple People ( Italian: Il Popolo Viola) was an Italian mass protest movement who, among other things, called for the resignation of now former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The movement was disaffected with mainstream Italian politics, and identified themselves at demonstrations and rallies by wearing items of the colour purple ...