It's not a question of blaming trade deals OR blaming automation.

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32. Obviously corporations did

Nothing I wrote suggested otherwise.

I didn't insult you. I referenced the kind of discourse I find frustrating, as I already explained.

It's clear you don't understand my point at all but are distracted by your assumption that a disagreement on ideas amounts to a personal insult.

Working people and their organizations have been fighting corporations since the late 19th century, at least. That was before the country's left was systematically imprisoned, deported, and purged.

The fact is the entire discourse about globalization and corporatism is recent. People repeatedly refer back to the 50s and 60s as the good ole days. People here insisted they couldn't support a "corporate" Dem like Hillary, despite voting for every Democrat before her, as though those leaders were somehow other than corporate. The primacy of trade deals (NAFTA and TPP) in that entire discourse is narrow. That is not to say one shouldn't oppose them, but to attribute an entire economic trajectory to them is at best exaggerated.