The Right Hates Monopoly

The fight against commercial monopolies has its origins in the struggle for self determination. Monopolized sectors have two powerful advantages: they are concentrated, which makes it easier for them to come to agreement on how to lobby governments. Thomas jefferson railed against the decision to exclude anti monopoly from the bill of rights. Jefferson and sherman both understood that governments could not do the people's bidding if wealth and thus ower was gathered into a small number of hands. The right hates antitrust. Anti trust is anti eugenic. It's about pluralizing power, about giving a veto to states over corporations.