You don't get perfect. You get better.try to think with the part of your brain that doesn't seek elite society validation....
You're trying to pass a bill that will be seen as the "Asian" version of NAFTA. A bill that would actually provide numerous benefits to various US constituencies/businesses, but at a time when there is some hesitation towards the benefits of free trade agreements etc. So you think the best way of ensuring passage is to demand that the bill be passed before it is publicized? It's to allow corporate lobbyists etc to see what is going to be in the bill but keeping it a secret from everyone else?
Now, who really doesn't understand politics???
Theres been a long standing debate over the validity of multilateral deals versus bilateral trade deals between companies just layered over each other.
Its hard enough to do, then you want the average person to vote on tit?
It'd be impossible to get anything done for the greater good. Its just over the pay grade of the average person who in their gullible and limited ways, wouldn't understand the need to pursue the goal.
Obama constantly said "this will help the USA to continue to write the rules of interactions"...and people wrote him off as some sort of corporatist.
Well, this is what it gets you. Corporations matter, right or wrong, good or bad, and they employ a fukk ton of people and are the bedrock of many labor markets and consumer products. You wanna play games with that, then do it on your own watch.