Straight up this is probably the same sort of modus operandi corporations will re-adopt if they keep getting their way. Like you think government collusion and monopolism and corruption and soulless profit-mongering are bad, they used to fucking murder people, constantly. Not just through indirect means like not giving you adequate health insurance or lobbying against every single right you might possibly have, they would give a man a gun and get that man to fucking shoot you dead. This is why Wal-mart throwing in anti-union videos in during training skeeves me the fuck out, because the last time anti-unionism was massive-huge they used to have shit like the Company Town and the Pinkertons. If you should be afraid of anyone, if you should distrust anyone, if you should constantly judge and criticise anyone, it is people with money. People with lots of money, anybody with money who so much as fucking looks at anybody with a career in politics. Christ forbid that they're both. They're not your friend, they are not your representative, they are not on your side.