I feel like we are watching the sovereignty of nations fade, and watching the baton pass to corporations. The US has invented this industry of Intellectual Prop

I feel like we are watching the sovereignty of nations fade, and watching the baton pass to corporations. The US has invented this industry of Intellectual Property deliberately as a way to extract money from people by limiting their freedoms. As nations become less powerful and corporations become more powerful, the political landscape is shifting. I believe the US is creating the TPP to try to give as much of an advantage to US corporations in that future landscape where corporations are sovereign over nations. The US is trying to intimidate other countries to join on the threat of being cut out of this new exclusive elite they are trying to create if they don't. I think people are reluctantly agreeing to it because they are afraid of being outcast from future political influence if this TPP deal does go through without them, and nations become less powerful.