2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you support the Free Trade policies that the Corporate Democrats are selling? [View all]Sancho
(9,071 posts)My father was an Army officer during the 50's who went to school on the GI Bill after WWII (50,000 Americans killed in Korea). I grew up on military bases.
I was A1 in the Vietnam draft, got a college deferment, and never got called (60,000 Americans killed).
The Iraq wars were minor in terms of American losses. Still, I burned a draft card while in college. We stood up in the 60s and early 70s to stop the Vietnam war.
I didn't see any real effort to stop Iraq. One or two politicians' votes have nothing to do with the general population rising up against war. In today's America, we glorify war!!! No one is seriously making the military budget an issue in this election with terrorists shooting people everyday.
Inequality is not a US issue - it's a worldwide economic issue that has been growing for decades. Manipulation of free markets is part of the problem. There is not enough international regulation of trade and monetary abuse. That seems obvious from the Panama papers, even though it was well-known for years.
Some trade agreements were purely created by corporations, but others had a lot of people at the table. It's been a mix. I think there are about 20 trade agreements now.