Next time a Democratic administration negotiates a trade deal, it needs to stipulate THIS:

[Ken Burch]

"Under NO circumstances will any country's levels of educational funding, social spending, healthcare spending, environmental laws, labor laws, consumer protection laws, or laws protecting indigenous or ethnic/racial minority rights ever be considered a tarfff or a trade barrier subject to challenge in the tribunals".

Trade deals should be about one thing and one thing only: opening national markets to international trade. This objective never requires any mechanism with which corporations can force a nation with which they seek to trade to become more internally unequal, less universally educated, and more openly dangerous to live in.