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In reply to the discussion: A New Third Way/No Labels Movement - A Coalition Between Progressives and the Alt-Right? [View all]TomCADem
(17,837 posts)24. Here Is Ron Paul Agreeing with Trump's Attack on NAFTA.
I am sure we could also easily find similar attacks on NAFTA from the left as being a deal that is leading to a race to the bottom with demands that the U.S. renegotiate these rigged deals, which only benefit the global elite. In other words, the Alt-Right and Far Left not only oppose deals like NAFTA and TPP, but they use the same anti-global elite rhetoric.
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/archives/donald-trump-and-getting-out-of-nafta
NAFTA is government-managed trade. It's regional protectionism and a forced-trade agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
A real free trade agreement (if Americans really thought it were necessary) could be written in a couple of sentences. The monstrous NAFTA runs over 1,000 pages and is loaded with cronyism, regulations, production codes, and government bureaucracy that prohibits free trade.
When NAFTA was passed, Henry Kissinger wrote in the Los Angeles Times: What Congress will have before it is not a conventional trade agreement but the architecture of a new international system...a first step toward a new world order.
NAFTA is a globalist scheme, and not "free trade" as the servile American media likes to refer to it. The media tells us that NAFTA and free trade doesn't work. That's incorrect. Only NAFTA doesn't work. Free trade would work if it were allowed to exist.
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A New Third Way/No Labels Movement - A Coalition Between Progressives and the Alt-Right? [View all]
TomCADem
Apr 2017
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TomCADem
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Actually it might be, and your first paragraph is countered by something we see right here on DU
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