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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.

Russia Today: Thom Hartmann: ‘Time for White Americans to Wake the Hell Up’

Source:The New Democrat What Thom Hartmann doesn’t mention that is some of the stereotypes of the African-American community get positive play in the hip-hop community, a community that obviously has huge influence over the African-American community when it comes to … Continue reading

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RT: Video: The Big Picture: John Farrell: What is Energy Decentralization?

Derik Schneider on Google+ The New Democrat on Facebook The New Democrat on Twitter This sounds very interesting, because instead of talking about nationalizing energy or State or local governments turning energy companies into government-owned agencies, John Farrell is saying … Continue reading

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Jonestown: Nightmare in Paradise

To understand Jonestown, you first have to know about the People’s Temple, which started out in downtown San Francisco, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and in a many ways an actual paradise, which is where a … Continue reading

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Belle Zonder Hetbeest: Video: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Source:The New Democrat Forget about the Manson Crime Family when it comes to cults, because at the end of the day, the Manson Family was a family of criminals but Jonestown was a cult that ended horribly with several hundred … Continue reading

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Dame Elizabeth Taylor: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf with the great Taylor/Burton combo is supposed to be a drama but  I always laugh throughout this movie, which I’ve seen now four or five times and saw again over the weekend. I’ve been thinking … Continue reading

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Paul Krugman: ‘Inequality, Dignity & Freedom’

Source:New York Times– left-wing columnist Paul Krugman. Source:The New Democrat “Now that the Congressional Budget Office has explicitly denied saying that Obamacare destroys jobs, some (though by no means all) Republicans have stopped lying about that issue and turned to … Continue reading

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AlterNet: Robert Reich: Why America Has Forgotten Its Three Biggest Economic Lessons

Source:The New Democrat AlterNet: Opinion: Robert Reich: Why America Has Lost Its Three Biggest Economic Lessons What Robert Reich and others on the further left of me do not understand is that when we had those huge tax rates in … Continue reading

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Free Speech TV: Video: The Big Picture With Thom Hartmann: Richard Wolff What to do when Capitalism Fails

The New Democrat Didn’t catch the part about what Professor Richard Wolff would do when capitalism failed. He just said how he believed it would fail and why it would fail but not what would happen next. I could give … Continue reading

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Russia Today: Thom Hartmann & Tim Cavanaugh: When Conservatives Embraced Big Government

Source:The New Democrat  What Thom Hartmann doesn’t mention is that a lot of those Federal jobs were created in the Reagan Administration in the U.S. Department of Defense and a large number in the private defense industry and most of … Continue reading

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30 For 30: Video: Straight Outta LA: The Story of the Los Angeles Raiders

Derik Schneider on Google+ The truth is that had Al Davis and his team marketed his Raiders franchise in Los Angeles as the Dodgers and Lakers are marketed in Los Angeles, the Raiders would probably still be in LA today. … Continue reading

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