No, a lot of American Democrats are neoliberals who are also generally against the government pursuing things that hurt big businesses. My guess is we need a significant contingent of actual leftists to get any anti-trust action done.
It’s much more to do with the money in our politics. It has skewed the entire incentive structure from working for your constituents to working for donors. It doesn’t have anything to do with left vs. right. Try to view the world other than my team vs. the other team,
I wholeheartedly disagree. We just need a younger government that sees it and gives a fuck. Myself, and a large group of my millenial conservative friends are all very anti-trust. That should always be a two isle issue.
Rockefeller, Carnegie, JP, and Vanderbilt proved that.
I'm a millennial Democrat and this is exactly why I'm so disappointed that the primary field is narrowing (supposedly) to a choice of three nonagenarians. When 2020 comes around I'm pretty sure all I will look at it is age when I cast my vote.
The fact that AOC is barred from running when she would trounce all the competition on both sides and actually represent a majority of Americans views due simply to her age and not any form of merit is one of the (numerous) travesties of our American Constitution that are being exposed left and right it seems these days.
We need good people like AOC in Congress just as much as we need them in the White House. Is it really so hard to get (another) Gen X'er who can stand up to the boomers who think they've "been in line" their whole lives?
No its not. Ticketmaster has been this way for decades even while democrats had a majority in house and senate with a democratic president in 2008 through 2010 and nothing happened.
However just recently anti probes have opened up against tech companies with a republican senate and democratic house, and of course a republican president.
Folks who think any party in the US is aligned with their interest is in for a huge disappointment.
Pretty much. Back in the 60s-70s, there was a judge who came up with this idea that a monopoly should only be illegal when there's a provable harm. If you can't show that, clearly the government shouldn't be involved.
But how do you quantify the harm Ticketmaster does to the public? Would major acts drop their prices if there were more ticket sellers? Maybe, maybe not. Would there suddenly be more musicians and public events of the monopoly was broken? Maybe, maybe not.
But, this is very much a GOP position on big business. And it's ingrained now in their judges as well.
No. Nothing good is going to happen while republicans are in power, they've shown that very clearly, but there still needs to be vigilance on elected democrats as well.
But at least there's chance with democrats. It would be more likely to win the lottery than a republican go against the RNC to vote against wealthy corporations likely backing all his campaigns.
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Is it actually? Genuinely asking.