LOL! You obviously don’t like my question, do you? You never seem able to answer it. I guess you don’t want to admit that a citizen is also a consumer and, therefore, benefits from free(r) trade. Perhaps that’s why free traders have done so well at winning elections. If only people would do what you want them to, eh hedge?
Actually it’s you who don’t like to give citizens any more authority than as a mere consumer. Where is the benefit for citizens from “free trade” today? “free traders” have bought elections for the last 30 years, and our economy is in complete shambles from their policies. We are facing a total socialism in our government for the first time as a result of the unfettered “free trade” policies of Bush, Clinton, Bush.
Citizens want a strong country and prosperous domestic economy. They cannot ‘consume’ their way into it as has been demonstrated by “free trade” and our current economic devastation. Yet there you are, harping on the failed policies of “free trade”—it’s as if you want America to pass into oblivion. Why?