"The TPP is not about free trade. It's a corporate coup d'etat--against us!"

[TheKentuckian]

86. You are smoking some seriously good shit if you believe any forthcoming chapters

will raise our labor standards, human rights requirements, increase working class wages, or reduce wealth disparity.

None of it is going to happen, you may as well be holding out for how many fairies and unicorns are being negotiated. I consider your espoused position to be inherently dishonest or at bare minimum misleading.

There are no plausible benefits for the working class super majority of people in the United States only increasing the obstacles and level of difficulty in moving the needle in these areas for ourselves and ever diluting the power of our votes.

You argue for paragraphs about these points but no matter how much you go on the meat of your rationale remains nigh unto infinitely vague, it seems to me.

What set of provisions make this a lean yes for you? What benefits do you think most Americans will see as a result here? Do you really think that even our woefully unacceptable current minimums and regulations will be the base line established, much less any positive movements enforced here?

How can you even be comfortable enough with the process to even care. If we the people wanted to make changes of the magnitude of some indicated provisions we would have to successfully amend the constitution, a much more difficult process that "passing agreements" (seeing that ratifying treaties might be a hassle so give it a pass 8th a way to go) and "fast track".

It is bullshit and bullshit compounded when as per the usual we see hundreds of huge corporations driving the bus and fully cognizant of the situation while the people must be in the dark.
A fierce belief in the corporate super citizen is implied in the entire process and just about next door to they being the citizens and us? Consumer surfs.
Bad government, bad process. Anti self determination.