POLL on TPP Fast Track poll

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15. I understand. Conservatives (particularly tea partiers) are against 'free trade' more than liberals.

Their reasons are undoubtedly different since they have no desire to see 'all those wonderful goals' that you and I want.

One unusual aspect of this is what happens in Europe. There liberals use the power of multinational treaties and organizations to curb the power of multinational corporations, while European conservatives stress national sovereignty and try to weaken the EU and other multinational organizations.

Here it seems that many liberals and many conservatives treasure national sovereignty and see little to be gained from multinational treaties and organizations. Conservatives are afraid these will be too liberal or 'socialist' (many of them see the UN as a liberal One World Government in the making) while liberals are afraid they will be too conservative or 'corporatist'. The only thing that liberals and conservatives agree on, in this context, is that multinational organizations are dangerous and to be avoided in most cases.