(Article changed on January 25, 2014 at 11:19)
This
is the third part of a five-part series: Sleeping
Through the TPP Coup: Why a Trans-National Corporate Power Grab That
Hurts Almost Everyone Is Arousing So Little Outcry
Part 1: What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership, And Why Don't I Care?
Part 2: Obstacles to Anti-TPP Coordination: A Social Psychological Account
Part 3: The Puzzle of "Liberal" Obama's Support for the TPP
Part 4: Pitting Fear of Our Complicity Against the Fear to Resist the TPP
Part 5: Battling the TPP with Enlightenment, Love and a Thirst For Meaning in the Face of Death
The first part of this series introduced the Trans Pacific Partnership "trade deal" scam, identified its potential dangers, as well as the dangers of allowing it to be "fast-tracked" through Congress. It also posed the question: why have activists had so much difficulty raising the mass awareness and mass outrage that the TPP threat warrants?
The second part drew on social psychology concepts like ingroup favoritism, cognitive miserliness, the halo effect and cognitive dissonance to explore some potential answers to that question.
This third part continues to draw on relevant social psychology concepts, but focuses on the mystery of why President Obama--who seemed pretty rhetorically committed to egalitarian reform, financial regulation and opposing bad trade deals when he was a candidate in 2008--is seeking "fast-track" authority for the TPP.
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