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The corporations decided that anti trust laws were bad so they each did their part to erode support and enforcement of them. Then bit by bit they eventually became only laws on the books not in enforcement
That's a fucking bingo. Sometimes I imagine telling my grandfather who raised me and died in the 80s what America is like today.
"So why isn't the government doing anything about all this? That's their job."
"Well..."