Tag Archives: Liberal Democrats

Keith Hughes: US Federalism For Dummies: American Government Review

Source:The New Democrat  Federalism for dummies or for people who aren’t capable of learning anything important or staying awake unless the lesson is given in an MTV like format especially in our valley pop culture world. But Keith Hughes does … Continue reading

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Politics and Prose: Al From- ‘The New Democrats and the Return to Power’

Source:The New Democrat “From founded the Democratic Leadership Council in 1984. In the twenty-five years he served as its CEO, he achieved his goal of bringing the Democratic Party back to power. In this political memoir he recounts the development … Continue reading

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TV Days: President John F. Kennedy: ‘Imagine What Fox News Would Say’

Source:The New Democrat  Here’s one thing that I love about Jack Kennedy. He wasn’t anti-government and neither am I, but he did have a healthy skepticism about what government could do for people. Meaning he didn’t want government trying to … Continue reading

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Hoover Institution: Peter Robinson Interviewing James Pierson: ‘The Rise & Fall of Liberalism’

Source:FRS FreeState Again I separate Progressivism from liberalism and the progressivism From Teddy Roosevelt in the early twentieth century all the way up through the 1950s up until John F. Kennedy is progressivism in it’s best form and classical form … Continue reading

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American Rhetoric: President William Jefferson Clinton’s Farewell Address

Source:FRS FreeState Before Bill Clinton became President of the United States, Liberal Democrats in America were seen as something we are not. We had all sorts of negative stereotypes about us, not all of them unfair. Because there are Democrats … Continue reading

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Politico: Kenneth Vogel & Tarini Parti: The Existential Crisis of the Liberal Millionaire

Politico Just so we are clear that Liberals and Democrats (and I mean real Liberal Democrats) aren’t against millionaires and wealth. How I know that because the Democratic Party if anything may have more wealthy millionaire individual donors than the … Continue reading

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Democracy Journal: Opinion: Paul Starr: Al From, The Frame-Maker: How New Democrats Re-Defined Liberalism

New Democrats Democracy Journal: Opinion: Paul Starr: From the Frame-Maker I agree with most of what Paul Starr said in his piece about New Democrats which I’m one philosophically and what part of the Democratic Party I’m from and how … Continue reading

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The Nation: Opinion: Robert Borosage: Time to Stand up For a More Perfect Union

The Nation: Opinion: Robert Borosage: Time to Stand Up For a More Perfect Union I didn’t see much from Robert Borosage about as far as how to build this movement to “build that more perfect union”. And what exactly what … Continue reading

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Andrew Sullivan: ‘Why is Liberal a Dirty Word?’

Source:The New Democrat  The reason why in the past the word Liberal has almost been seen as bad as a cuss word or someone would call someone a Liberal like they would call someone a jerk or a bastard or … Continue reading

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Richard Eskow: The Populist Moment

Source:The New Democrat  It is hard to describe America from an ideological standpoint as a whole. Because we are such a huge and vast country and then you throw in all of our political diversity. We are a country by … Continue reading

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