I just heard the perfect example of why we're being hosed by both parties on another thread

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35. The way I look at it -

Global capitalists are pushing for TPP. It will be like NAFTA only worse - many more jobs shipped wherever it is cheapest to do the work.

What this means for America: lowered standard of living across the board because it forces wages down here

I've come to the conclusion that there are a couple ways to look at this. We can try to prevent TPP and slow them down. That's step one and may work for awhile. Second, we can think about what it means for labor worldwide. There are pockets of extreme poverty that will get more jobs and pull their standard of living up.

I dunno, I kind of like the idea of borders coming down for people and areas of extreme poverty getting a better lifestyle. But as a socialist I think the efforts have to be on organizing labor (not just here - everywhere). So, to me, the important thing is to keep the internet open. In order to organize we've got to be able to communicate.

The silver lining: If we can organize labor worldwide we have a shot at taking down capitalism - there are many more of us (workers) than them (the 1% globally who control most of the wealth).

So, if we fail at slowing TPP I think we just have to ramp up our worldwide organizational efforts to organize labor.