The trouble with TPP and other such "advances": Big corporations are pulling strings in the background, to annul democratic control. With bigger institutions (

The trouble with TPP and other such "advances": Big corporations are pulling strings in the background, to annul democratic control. With bigger institutions (e.g. Washington, Brussels, ...) it becomes simpler and simpler to find people that are far enough from the voters and corrupted enough to support such endeavors. The result are secret proceedings and parliaments that become pressed to vote for big legislation where the effects for democracy and nations can not be foreseen. In effect, those lobbies have their way (at least oftentimes in the last decades) and destroy democratic control and control of the big corporations. So it comes, that big corporations have a "free hand" to do what they want but are liable for nearly nothing. The worst thing about this is, that when one "advance" is rejected by democracy -- no trouble, just give it a different name, make it a little different and give it an other 3 or 4 letters acronym ... and bring it back next year!