Author Archives: Derik Schneider

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About Derik Schneider

I use a picture of John F. Kennedy as my profile pic on social media for as a very good reason: I'm a center-right, John F. Kennedy, Liberal Democrat. The real Liberals who believe in the defense of liberal democracy and the fight against authoritarianism, left-wing or right-wing. But I blog a lot about the Far-Left (or new-left, if you prefer) because I'm very interested in socialism and communism, as well as center-left progressivism, which is the real progressivism.

The Rubin Report: Dave Rubin- Interviewing Jeffrey Tucker: ‘Alt-Right and Right-Wing Collectivism’

Source:The New Democrat  “Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Jeffrey Tucker (American Institute for Economic Research) about issues with the right, the alt right, right wing collectivism, and more.” From The Rubin Report As Dave Rubin said, we know … Continue reading

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Consensus 44: Oliver Wilson- Social Media: ‘Addictive, Frustrating But Here To Stay’

Source:Consensus 44 “Social media: addictive, frustrating but here to stay.” I could leave it at what Oliver Wilson said in his blog post, but as a blogger myself I feel a duty to explain to my readers at least why … Continue reading

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The Daily Beast: Rick Wilson: ‘Everything That Donald Trump Touches Dies Today’

Source: The New Democrat I’m going to take you down my memory lane and talk about the Republican Party that I grew up with as a kid in the 1980s and early 90s and see if anyone remembers that GOP … Continue reading

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AlterNet: Bob Hennelly: ‘Watching Reality Luxury TV Is Killing America’s Economic Drive & Maybe Its Soul’

Source:The New Democrat In the last 15-20 years or so with Generation X full coming of age and now with the Millennials coming of age as well, we’re seeing less religion and church going in America ( except deep in … Continue reading

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The Film Archives: Jeff Guinn- Jim Jones: ‘The Most Complete Picture To Date Of This Tragedy’

Source:The New Democrat “Jim Jones: The Most Complete Picture to Date of This Tragic Saga.” From The Film Archives I think Jeff Guinn the author of this book about Reverend Jim Jones and Jonestown makes a good point about how the … Continue reading

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Salon Magazine: Andrew O’Hehrir- Interviewing Rob Reiner: On Why Neither Party Works Today

Source: The New Democrat I disagree with Rob Reiner on one thing in this video that Donald Trump wasn’t vetted at all. I would argue that he wasn’t even vetted properly. We know all about how dangerous, undisciplined, unqualified, bigoted, … Continue reading

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The Rubin Report: Dave Rubin- What is a Classical Liberal?

Source: The New Democrat I’ve been asked many times in the past what are my politics. I’m been accused ( if you want to put it that way ) of being a Libertarian or some other right-winger especially on social … Continue reading

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The Rubin Report: Dave Rubin Interviewing Nadine Strossen- Free Speech & Personal Liberty

Source: The New Democrat This debate about liberty versus equality as if that is a real choice which it isn’t and I’ll get into that later, reminds me of a speech that longtime Chicago University Economics Professor Milton Friedman, who described … Continue reading

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Storm: Dallas- ‘J.R. Ewing’s Best Quotes’

Source:The New Democrat “Dallas: J.R Ewing Best Quotes (Volume2)” From Storm Have you ever met a wiseass, perhaps asshole even in the jerk sense and not someone who consistently speaks, out of their rear let’s say, but who just isn’t a … Continue reading

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Professor Noam Chomsky: The Nanny State

Source:The New Democrat “Noam Chomsky – The Nanny State” From Chomsky’s Philosophy Noam Chomsky’s definition of a nanny state, is what almost every else including people who favor the nanny state on both wings of the American political spectrum, would call … Continue reading

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