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Originally Posted by Pete F.
I know this is hard for you to understand as a staunch constitutionalist, but it hurts our society as a whole and inhibits our progress (another word conservatives hate as the root of progressive) for wealth and power to be concentrated in the hands of a small minority. This is the reason the Republican Party pushed for the Sherman Anti-trust Act in 1890, which was enacted unanimously and why the Federal Trade Commission was started. It was a problem then and now is again.
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So then, the Sherman Anti-trust Act did not work. Misguided legislation usually doesn't. Especially Progressive legislation ("Progressive" being a self-prescribed label that is actually an oxymoron). And, as with most all Progressive legislation that doesn't work, Regressive/Progressive Pols want to double down. That is, impose even more limitations on people's rights, which continues into a spiral of more limitations which eventually leads to the centralized power of government which you pretend not to like.