A major reason that Democrats lost so many seats in 1994 is that unions sat out the vote after President Clinton pushed through ratification of NAFTA with primarily Republican support. Ross Perot famously said that a "giant sucking sound" was created by jobs going south because of NAFTA and subsequent events have proved him right. The so-called worker and environment protection clauses in such deals are always too weak to do any good.
Yet you consistently support such deals and recently pushed through the Peru trade pact even though unions overwhelmingly oppose them. Why do you persist in this support even though it splits the Democratic coalition, takes away jobs, only helps large corporations, and creates a global "race to the bottom" for wages?
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