Democracy is a bad ideal that is much inferior for economic prosperity than one party states/kingdoms like Singapore, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Qatar who have a high degree of economic freedom. This deal would increase prosperity and trade and prevent unelected bureaucrats on both sides of the atlantic from restricting commerce with oppressive laws.
If only US and EU weren't a democracy, but allowed full blown economic freedom, we would all have plenty more money in our pockets.
> Democracy is a bad ideal that is much inferior for economic prosperity than one party states/kingdoms like Singapore, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Qatar who have a high degree of economic freedom
Er, right. You're surely aware that most one-party states have very little in the way of economic freedom AND have a high degree of corruption? Not to mention that economic freedom, for many people, is less important than a decent human rights record. And while neither the EU nor the US are perfect in this record, they're still considerably better than bastions of economic freedom like Qatar.
You don't have to be a one-party dictatorship to have a free country. The US was originally designed to be a free country, and it was a constitutional republic (not a democracy). The reason the US strayed from that was because, basically, the Constitution was too weak (and there were many generations of Supreme Court justices devoted to undermining it).
The power of denial is strong. That's an interesting ideal, but the reality is that we have a bought government. How is giving the same people who bought the government more power going to fix anything? If anything that would lead to dictatorship and outright serfdom.
If only US and EU weren't a democracy, but allowed full blown economic freedom, we would all have plenty more money in our pockets.