Apparently all of these distractions are preventing redditors from engaging in actual substantive debates about these issues too. Because all I ever see are buzzwords about big scary corporations negotiating in secrecy and piracy. You'll be hard-pressed to find any discussions relating to free trade as means to improve impoverished nations and reduce global poverty, protectionism versus economic efficiency and lower consumer prices, how this treaty will or won't effectively curb China's global economic influence, is the TPP a direct response to China's support of the AIIB which supposedly seeks to undermine the US' influence in the region, how will China respond, would a lack of a TPP passage set forth a policy vacuum in the region and lead China to pursue the passage of the more aggressive FTAAP? All of these questions are relevant to the debate.

Who knows. I don't know. I'm aware of the issues and have read a bit about these things, but I'd expect people who apparently see this issue as absolutely critical to the future of the US to be able to help me answer some of these questions.

Nah, it's a lot easier to whine about conspiracies and corporations fucking you in the ass because actually would require reading things. These people have an obsession with alleviating themselves of the burden of political awareness by applying a one size fits all narrative of corporate control and conspiracy taking advantage of the poor sheeple while the englightened ones see what's really going on. And I don't have time to actually learn about specific issues when I can just safely apply this one size all narrative about corporations controlling everything and political parties being a sham to literally any issue that could possibly threaten my freedom and liberty. I, the enlightened one, am absorbing maymays about how other people are distracted by frivolous issues distracting them from the real issues which I also know nothing about.