A small fraction of the fraction of the population who follow politics know or care about this. They pass bills which haven’t been read and ignore the people because it works. It secures their power base and as a politician, nothing is more important than that.
Governors make foreign trade deals all the time. Most of the people don’t even know their governors are doing it, let alone what is in the deals.
People are cattle and are happy until something spooks the herd into a blind stampede.