Let’s tell the truth. Cruz is in a can’t win position because of money. TPP is where the money is in this election cycle.
Trump does not need money and that is a big advantage for him because he can assume the populists position instead of the corporate view.
I like Cruz even though I don’t think he will win the nomination, but has no money. It takes money to win and he is convinced that he can win. Cruz, like many of us, also bought into the corporate conservative view of free trade is good for all. There was a point when I believed it was true and it could lift everyone up, but over the years I have learned that the people in charge of free trade are those making millions off of it - not the workers. I don’t think many people have been lifted up by the surge in the markets since the bubble burst either. Free trade lifts the stock market and exports jobs. Anyone who has observed this for the last few decades must admit this truth.
There are two major interests that control international trade - the banksters and the global socialists. Neither group represents the American worker or average Joe. Many conservatives bought into the idea of “what is good for Wall Street is good for everyone.” Is that really true?
Consider for a second the growth in our national debt has largely been fueled by the Fed Reserve creating more dollars (a tax on us all - especially our children and grandchildren) to pump up the stock market and save the big corporations that own the politicians. What we have witnessed under both parties is the largest theft in history - it’s a grand ponzi scheme. The left wants to lift up the poor in developing nations. The right wants to create massive wealth in the hands of a few.
I am still not sure I trust Trump, but the fact that he does not buy into the conventional wisdom (I used to buy into it also) makes him very dangerous to very powerful people. Forget his stump speeches and listen to some of his more deliberate interviews and he has the potential to open some eyes to what I just said. The forces that will be against him are far greater than what we see now because he is a threat to the people who have perpetrated the theft from our children and they are firmly in control.
We all laughed at Occupy Wall Street because of “the crowd” and the way they went about it, but I will go on record and predict that the Tea Party may morph into the same message from the opposite side because the “theft” is at the center of everything right now. If Trump can capture that and open peoples eyes to “the theft” he will be attacked viciously from both sides of the aisle. The GOPe is owned by the corporations. The DNC is owned by global progressives. Both of them want free trade because it serves their interest.
I don’t think either party wants what is best for me or you anymore. They serve their masters.
I don’t necessarily disagree with your take on this.
While I do think Wall Street and corporate America deserves to take it on the chin, both are potential champions for healthy Capitalism as well.
Thus I’m not a frothing at the mouth anti-Wall Street or Corporate critic. Some folks don’t realize these entities must exist.
It’s like the loan industry. It needs to be kept healthy by inside and outside players.