Fiction: Liberal Democratic voters support the TPP.

[RiverLover]

1. "...economic populism is the very DNA of Democrats."

Thank you Cali!! Great post.

Here's a similar take from an article posted today at Salon~

...Hardest to explain is the relative silence of progressives. Sovereignty, states’ rights and separation of powers are key issues to Republicans, but economic populism is the very DNA of Democrats. Their leaders are heirs to Jefferson, Jackson, Bryan and Roosevelt. When they abandon working families to align with corporate elites it’s tantamount to Republicans abandoning their base on guns, taxes and abortion. Imagine the outcry of the Tea Party and the speed with which it would primary every defector. Will even one Democrat be primaried over the TPP? Labor says it is disappointed by Democrats, but one wonders if it has a bottom line.

When Obama was coming up, no Democrat was taken seriously by the elites unless he or she embraced globalization and snickered discreetly at liberals and labor. That’s changing, but not fast enough.

Absent an independent progressive movement to put real pressure on politicians, change never comes fast enough. It’s an awful price to pay, but perhaps this latest outrage will spark one.