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LWolf

(46,179 posts)

18. Cancer is here to stay. Mend it, don't try to end it.

Reply to ericson00 (Original post)

Fri Jul 1, 2016, 08:56 AM

Jul 2016

Got it.

You could substitute all kinds of ills for "free trade," or neo-liberalism. Disease. Violence. Greed. Fear. Hate. Ignorance.

Why would we not want to end those ills, any ills? Why the message of lost hope? It doesn't exactly motivate anyone to participate, to be active, to do anything but fearfully obey the overseers.

But then, that's the point.

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Free Trade is Here to Stay So Mend it, Don't (Try to) End It [View all] ericson00 Jul 2016 OP

lol SoLeftIAmRight Jul 2016 #1

nopex100 840high Jul 2016 #3

Allow me to sing you the song of my people Scootaloo Jul 2016 #11

Like the man said: NOPE. marble falls Jul 2016 #2

Nope. PowerToThePeople Jul 2016 #4

Kill it with FIRE. And trash the bumper sticker bullshit. cherokeeprogressive Jul 2016 #5

It's so reassuring to find that there are still humans left here. Thank you, cherokeeprogressive. DisgustipatedinCA Jul 2016 #6

Smoot-Hawley "protectionism" had almost zero effect on The Great Depression. Elwood P Dowd Jul 2016 #7

No doubt we can turn it back into fair trade. Rex Jul 2016 #8

Why the scare quotes? Neoliberalism is an actual thing Scootaloo Jul 2016 #9

It's a horrible trade agreement Aerows Jul 2016 #13

Al Gore convinced me in 1993 that free trade is a good thing: Nye Bevan Jul 2016 #10

Ross Perot wasn't wrong. Aerows Jul 2016 #14

And Al Gore was wrong. He pulled a fast one on you and millions of others like you Elwood P Dowd Jul 2016 #16

Anyone that is cheering for TPP Aerows Jul 2016 #12

I feel compelled to reiterate Aerows Jul 2016 #15

I support fair trade not corporate trade. forjusticethunders Jul 2016 #17

Cancer is here to stay. Mend it, don't try to end it. LWolf Jul 2016 #18