Tag Archives: Far Left

Slate: Opinion: Dave Weigel: Why the Left is Stronger Without the Democrats: The Current Democratic Coalition

Posted on March 5, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Slate: Opinion: Why the Left is Stronger Without the Democrats  Erik Schneider on Google+ The New Democrat on Facebook The New Democrat on Twitter It’s generally not a good idea to compare American politics with British politics because the center … Continue reading →

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Reason: Opinion: Cathy Young: The Far-Left Still Harbors a Soft Spot For Communism

Posted on February 24, 2014 by Ederik Schneider

Reason: Opinion: Cathy Young: The Far-Left Still Harbors a Soft Spot For Communism Ederik Schneider on Google+ The New Democrat on Facebook The New Democrat on Twitter I’m not trying to claim that the mainstream far left in America, if … Continue reading →

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Paul Krugman: ‘Inequality, Dignity & Freedom’

Posted on February 16, 2014 by Derik Schneider

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

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Derik Schneider

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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Slate Magazine: Bob Garfield: Why I Love Big Government: A Valentine for Big Gov.

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  Bob Garfield in his column in Slate today was explaining what he loved about big government and laying out a lot of the things that government does and calling them big government. The problem is that not … Continue reading →

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Firing Line With William F. Buckley: The State of The Democratic Party (1985)

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Rik Schneider

. Source:The New Democrat  What happened to the Democratic Party in 1968, 1972, 1980, 1984 and 1988 in those presidential defeats and in the case of 1980 when the not only lost the White House in a landslide, but lost … Continue reading →

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Slate Magazine: Tanner Colby: How The Left’s Embrace of Busing Hurt The Cause of Integration

Posted on February 5, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  As a Liberal I believe in things like equal opportunity, Equal Justice Under the Law, wrote a blog about that yesterday. Equal Protection Under Law all of these great liberal values that I believe puts me in … Continue reading →

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The Hill: Judd Gregg: Progressives Play With Words, Truth

Posted on February 3, 2014 by Erik Schneider

Source:The New Democrat  When I think of liberalism, I look to the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, our Constitutional Amendments. Because that is where the core of liberalism is whether it is. Modern or classical and the reason … Continue reading →

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Chicago Tonight: John Callaway Interviewing Senator George McGovern (1978)

Posted on January 30, 2014 by kireschneider

. Source:The New Democrat If George McGovern was a loser, than America needs a lot more losers just like him. When it comes to knowledge, experience and judgement, because he is one of the finest people America has ever produced. … Continue reading →

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Thom Hartmann: ‘Time to do Away With The Second Amendment?’

Posted on January 25, 2014 by Derik Schneider

. Source:The New Democrat From what I’ve read over the last two weeks and blogged about, I’m starting to get the idea that I should write a new section or create something called something to the effect The Big Government … Continue reading →

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