White progressive analysis of politics is fundamentally broken.

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156. First off we don't sign it.

Well for starters the language is NOT there in the TPP. Unless the language is entirely comprised of platitudes and placation.

Every one of these Free Trade bills has been negotiated by the same multinational corporations. We should not sign them. Period.

Yes, trade will happen no matter what but when we sign these things we tie our hands from being able to ban imports from countries that are engaging in bad behavior whether it is slavery, killing union activists, or environmental concerns. The whole reason for these treaties is to protect the flow of work to the weakest regulated and lowest wage countries by preventing the citizens of those countries and the governments that represent them from being able to make decisions and consequently regulations regarding this.

As to our own problems with a lack of Unions, stagnant wages, and racism, only domestic action and legislation will fix those problems. Increasing the minimum wage, passing card-check rules in order to unionize, and massive reform of our justice system on an almost unprecedented scale will start to address those concerns.