Right. Anyone who disagrees with you must be some sort of brainwashed Kool-Aid drinker. A compelling style of argument, to be sure.
I suppose I could ask you how it feels to believe that, by virtue of being born in the USA, you deserve to have middle class jobs and one of the highest standards of living in recorded history while denying those in developing countries from the opportunity to drag themselves out of poverty via these jobs that have been outsourced from the US. I imagine it feels pretty unfair when other nations also try to participate in the ultra-capitalist American Dream, and end up out-competing you.
It’s also interesting how BoingBoing orthodoxy believes this treaty is bad primarily because of the sovereignty-breaching concessions it forces from non-US signatories, while your post (which will also gain a lot of support, I’m sure) essentially argues the opposite, saying that these treaties primarily benefit poorer nations at the expense of the mainstream US.
Finally, I’m not sure that free-trade agreements like NAFTA or the EU have actually damaged the economies or standards of living in the richer of the member nations (which is not to say there hasn’t been a strong decline in middle and lower class incomes since 1980). China’s domination isn’t the result of free trade agreements.
