Free Trade Agreements: Are they about freedom, trade or something else entirely?

While free trade agreements are usually understood to be the domain of the evil, corporation supporting Republicans, the fact is that the core of both parties and our entire government system is statist to the core. 

"After the Kennedy round ended, liberal internationalists, including people like Chase CEO David Rockefeller and former Undersecretary of State George Ball, began pressing for reductions in non-tariff barriers, which they perceived as the next set of trade impediments to pull down. Ball was an architect of 1960s U.S. trade policy - he helped write the Trade Act of 1962, which set the stage for what eventually became the World Trade Organization.
But Ball’s idea behind getting rid of these barriers wasn’t about free trade, it was about reorganizing the world so that corporations could manage resources for “the benefit of mankind”. It was a weird utopian vision that you can hear today in the current United States Trade Representative Michael Froman’s speeches. I’ve spoken with Froman about this history, and Froman himself does not seem to know much about it. But he is captive of these ideas, nonetheless, as is much of the elite class. They do not know the original ideology behind what is now just bureaucratic true believer-ism, they just know that free trade is good and right and true."

Statists of both parties are not concerned with freedom, free trade or anything of the sort because they are on a mission to "save mankind" through exercising control.  Remember, control is the key word, control of what you believe, how you live, etc. and it is through control that those in power will remain in power.  Whenever the legislative, executive, judicial or any lower governing body does something, we, as Americans, that still are paying attention should ask ourselves why a certain action is being taken.  The answer will almost always come back to control.