Email from Keith Ellison re: the TPP and the Democratic Platform Committee.

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16. That's what I'm saying.

They are using economic issues and turning them into racism issues. Working people are angry and are falling further and further behind. They don't really understsnd why. If No One comes along and shows them how it's the economy, they are going to belive the RepubliCONS. If no one tells them the reason they are falling behind and can't afford medicine or pay their kids college or fix the car, they are going to blame immigrants and minorities. They need to know that the uber rich corporations are overcharing monopolies that have extra special secret courts that ensure their power. If they don't know about trade agreements or special deals and taxes for the uber rich, they will listen to the racists and right wing crazies. If the left fails to provide a rational reason for the continued economic depression, then they will buy into what the right is saying.

We have to feed working people the truth for their desperate condition. They can get myth and lies from the right wing. We have to stand up to the corporations and banks and support anti-austerity, anti-facism, anti-corporatism. We can't give them corporatism hidden in trade deals and expect them to vote Democratic - that's what RepubliCONS do. Working people get lies from RepubliCONS, the remaining option is the truth and Democrats should be providing it.