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In reply to the discussion: Obama calls critics of TPP secrecy 'Conspiracy Theorists' [View all]SolutionisSolidarity
(606 posts)If the last 6 years have proven anything, it's that tribalism trumps rational thought in the Democratic Party as much as the Republicans. Once our leader makes a pronouncement, the loyalty squad kicks into high gear to insist that it is now the indisputable and eternal truth. So even though, as a Texan, I've always associated toll roads with Republican (Rick Perry's) efforts to eliminate public infrastructure and ghetto-ize the public, now we all understand that toll roads are actually the essential and just method to advance public infrastructure and reduce pollution. In fact, you'd have to be a climate change denying Republican who suffers from ODS to want publicly funded roadways now.
So it doesn't matter that Obama refuses to allow the public to know exactly what he is proposing that our country be locked into with the TPP. All you need to understand is that Obama is good, and therefore the TPP is good. That will suffice for many of the posters on this board.
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