After Getting Called Out, Elizabeth Warren Accuses Obama Of Deliberately Hiding Trade Details - Huff

[november3rd]

100. Why the U.S. Can't Be a Democracy And An Empire

If we have to cater to multinational corporations and foreign governments, then we're going to have to enact policies like this one, without any knowledge or input from the American people or our representatives.

If a large trade agreement is too important to bear the scrutiny of transparent legislative processes, then that trade agreement is undemocratic, by definition, and will curtail our democratic institutions and processes if it is enacted.

Besides the marriage of banks, multinational corporations, and government, the deal also binds the Pentagon with the same fascia by rendering their taxpayer funded security services essential to the flourishing of international commerce, and the protection of the multinationals' assets in foreign countries. The deal will marry our economy to a complex system requiring vast international compliance to work. If the multinationals are bound together with our government and military in a giant bundle, it will constitute a goliath beside the tiny nation states whose governments seek to defend their own peoples' interests.

It will be easy for the fascists to crush independence in each little country, one by one.