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TomCADem

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24. Here Is Ron Paul Agreeing with Trump's Attack on NAFTA.
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 04:46 PM
Apr 2017

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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Yep. It has already happened. nikibatts Apr 2017 #1
Instead of a Coalition Between Moderate Dems/Repubs, We Have a Far Left/Right Coalition TomCADem Apr 2017 #4
Union of far left and right is how democracies destroy themselves. Hortensis Apr 2017 #18
thanks for this Tom. Great explanation of horse shoe theory at work. JHan Apr 2017 #2
I was just going to post about how I miss the Cold War days ProudLib72 Apr 2017 #3
Well, don't forget how Eisenhower was a commie plant, Hortensis Apr 2017 #21
Rain on my nostalgia parade! ProudLib72 Apr 2017 #40
Lol. Well, here comes le deluge: The right has redrawn Hortensis Apr 2017 #43
Dealing with the Devil FiveGoodMen Apr 2017 #5
Ugh, it won't stop. betsuni Apr 2017 #6
Ah yes.. there's the Pawn for putin now.. jill stein Cha Apr 2017 #7
Ed Schultz Chooses the Limelight over Principles TomCADem Apr 2017 #16
That's not true MountCleaners Apr 2017 #8
Actually it might be, and your first paragraph is countered by something we see right here on DU stevenleser Apr 2017 #23
Except no "progressive' who would willingly join the alt-right is a progressive. pnwmom Apr 2017 #9
Here is the "Sane Progressive" Attacking Democratic Primary as Rigged and Bernie... TomCADem Apr 2017 #12
Wow. I wonder if she's part of Putin's team. n/t pnwmom Apr 2017 #13
History lesson: More Republicans than Democrats supported NAFTA MountCleaners Apr 2017 #10
Here Is Ron Paul Agreeing with Trump's Attack on NAFTA. TomCADem Apr 2017 #24
Daily Kos on Democrats' opposition to trade deals MountCleaners Apr 2017 #11
The Alt-Right Are Supportive of Protectionist Measures as Opposed To Establishment Republicans TomCADem Apr 2017 #14
"I am a progressive who gets results and I will be a progressive president who gets results" Tom Rinaldo Apr 2017 #15
Who is to say? Ed Schultz and the "Sane Progressive" Self-Identify as Progressives TomCADem Apr 2017 #27
Sure, and Donald Trump calls himself a Patriot Tom Rinaldo Apr 2017 #28
The election of 1872 is an example of a similar confluence. renegade000 Apr 2017 #17
It's the Worm Ouroboros. The Snake That Eats Its Own Tail. MineralMan Apr 2017 #19
Putin has his minions supporting the far left and far right. He is destroying the center. KittyWampus Apr 2017 #20
I would add "Caucasian superiority" or anti-Semitism and xenophobia to the list... VOX Apr 2017 #22
This is fucking stupid. alarimer Apr 2017 #25
There just seems to be a lot of denial about in-room elephants. HughBeaumont Apr 2017 #33
Not Divisive. Recognizing Common Ground Between Anti-Establishment Activists TomCADem Apr 2017 #35
Oh for fuck's sake. LeftyMom Apr 2017 #26
Yeah, the "split the party" trolling gets dumber and dumber Warpy Apr 2017 #29
Split the Party? Who Is Saying That Any of These Folks Are Democrats? TomCADem Apr 2017 #37
I don't understand cutting off part of the party, either. Volstagg Apr 2017 #34
Sane Progressive - "A TY to the RIGHT Opposing Missile Strikes" TomCADem Apr 2017 #36
I don't know her enough to comment. Volstagg Apr 2017 #38
Also, This Is Not About the Democratic Party. This Is About Folks Attacking the Democratic Party... TomCADem Apr 2017 #39
COME on, y'all. HughBeaumont Apr 2017 #30
There are not enough progressive left to win an election. Come 2018 they will say like in 2014 wasupaloopa Apr 2017 #32
Most of those are entertainment commentators working for ratings. wasupaloopa Apr 2017 #31
Russian/right propaganda move, yes sharedvalues Apr 2017 #41
Would the mash up mercuryblues Apr 2017 #42
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