I pointed out that what Warren said was, "there are about 600 outside advisors that have access to sensitive information, and the roster includes a wide diversity of industry representatives and some labor and NGO representatives too," and what one dishonest poster summarized that as was "600 international corporations wrote the bill." That's a stunning misrepresentation, no? Chomsky said, "it's not secret from the hundreds of corporate lawyers and lobbyists who are writing the thing," which is obvious hyperbole.
I'm a big believer that clarity and honesty are the most important things. People can and will disagree, but people on every side should still make every effort to be accurate and clear about their positions. With regard to the TPP, there is a fair debate to be had, with good points on both sides, but it's not being had because people are so emotional about it (even with no substantive positions), because people are forming positions without knowing what they're talking about, and because a lot of people who do know a little about it are trying to sell a position.
To some degree, I guess, that's always a problem in political discussions, but it's reaching almost comical levels here. I think when you take out all the bad arguments, it comes down a small but positive economic boost for the world as a whole, some of which will benefit America (if that's your only concern), and geopolitics (and I simply do not understand people, particularly one extremely belligerent and ignorant poster, who cannot accept that that is a genuine concern) versus legitimate concerns about undue corporate influence over domestic policy for member nations. It's also become a symbolic issue for the left, which I don't really care about.
