I've come to referring to the dominant political parties in Canada as the "red", "blue" and "orange" party (particularly, internally, in my thought-making)
because colors remove the fake associations that the parties real names evoke
ie. the names of the parties are just branding, not substance
perhaps, long ago, the parties stood for something particular
but today, as big tent parties, "what they stand for" is very loose
the only constant is trying to maintain a hold over the same cohorts as they have in the past ("middle aged white males", "urban non-white females", etc.)
it's become mostly about identity politics than real issues
ie. if you think "Conservatives" are still about "small government, traditional values"
...that's just the branding working, their actual recent history is all over the place (as with the other parties)
(we could actually have issue based parties, but it would take electoral reform, because polarized identity politics is the stable end game for first-past-the-post systems)