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In reply to the discussion: Mr. President, I take it personally: [View all]Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)We wouldn't be having to go on reflex alone" if "we the people" were actually allowed to read" it and not just be told we need to shut up and swallow our medicine. With all due respect to the President, "we the people" are supposed to be in charge and he and virtually every other "politician" in Washington, with the exception of an ever shrinking few, seems to have forgotten that.
TPP is not repeat not a matter of National Security and we have a right to read it before it is virtually guaranteed the rubber stamp of eventual passage Fast Tracking will give it.
If even my normally corporate friendly Senator Chuck Schumer is against it, I know it really has to suck pretty bad and unlike "we the people" he and Elizabeth Warren, & Bernie Sanders know what is actually in it, and even though the administration forbade them from actually talking about it's specifics to the people they are supposed to be representing and actually supposed to be accountable to, they are hinting pretty strongly that we have legitimate reasons for concern.
And before I'm labeled a "concern troll" my use of that word is based on it's actual definition. I am tired of allowing words and genuine emotions to be stole, redefined and mocked by others. That's the real reason I refuse to use "progressive". I see the abandonment of the word Liberal as a concession to the Pukes, who tried to make it a label to be ashamed of. I'm not and never will be ashamed of caring more about treating fellow humans, animals, and the environment than I do the almighty dollar and an ancient piece of contradictory literature that can and has been used too often for justifying man's inhumanity to man and callous treatment of the Universe we call home.