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In reply to the discussion: Is "liberal washing" at the heart of discord in the Dem party? [View all]Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)and generations of economic and political theorists.
Just looking at the wiki entry for liberalism and 'liberalism by country' shows that you are wrong - plenty of people think that, and if they don't, they are either uninformed or are deliberately misleading people. NAFTA is a free trade agreement. Free trade and 'free markets' are the main economic characteristics of liberalism.
In the US, we focus on social liberalism, but our economic policies - including those pushed by most mainstream Democrats, are economically liberal.
It should be no surprise that voting for liberals leads to liberal economic policies such as NAFTA and TPP, but the rare occasions I point this out here on DU it is not well received. I expect this will be no different.