>Typically you would expect this to be an opportunity for competition
What competition? Most of them have merged into massive blobs.
What competition? Most of them have merged into massive blobs.
Bigger corpos means bigger donations to bigger candidates. The entire system runs on money and nobody's got money to put in like these supercorps. We live in Gerontocracy that is actively building a Corporatocracy to replace it after the Boomers die off entirely and no money will ever go to the working class again.
You are grossly underselling the work of Lina Khan and the FTC.
If your change is no more durable than a single election, you didn't accomplish shit.
That is the way that the country works! The system is working as intended if a single government appointment can't unilaterally destroy monopolies in a single term.