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In reply to the discussion: Email from Keith Ellison re: the TPP and the Democratic Platform Committee. [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)whole populations. Talk about propaganda, it doesn't get more asinine than that. And please don't bother saying you weren't really implying this is all a business-corrupted liberal Democrat plot, because we both know that's why the word neoliberal is constantly being used wildly incorrectly.
A trans-Pacific partnership is happening. Our not joining won't change that, merely China would take our place. Got it? An economic alliance of nations circling the Pacific dominated by an authoritarian government bent on expanding its economic and military control across a third of the globe.
That's the most intractable reason among a number of reasons why, even though Hillary seemingly wants to work on the terms some more, Obama has committed to our becoming the dominant member. If we're not in it, we have very little control over what it does, and it would hurt our trade.