So are Amazon:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/amazon-com/recipients?id=D0...

and Microsoft:

https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/microsoft-inc/recipients?id...

And yet we see high profile activity against them from the current FTC.

And Meta: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/meta/recipients?id=D0000335..., https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/0...

And Intuit: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/intuit-inc/recipients?id=D0..., https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/1...

And Epic: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/epic-systems/recipients?id=..., https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings/1...

etc. etc.

? This is provably false. FTC filed 6 months ago.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/technology/google-ads-law...

n.b. I've found a lot of comfort by conciously rolling away from any subject that leads me to do "They"-ing, i.e. name an enormously large group, then talk about them as a unit. The more I avoid it, the more I realize how prevalent it became and drives how a lot of us feel society shifted.

It's called saving appearances.

So your position is, they'll never do it, and if they did, it's fake. Sounds like self-peasantization.

The people working at the FTC have been involved in revolving door in the very industries they're trying to break up.

It's a simple observation. They don't have the interest to make it pass but they still have to do it to save face.

The democratic party is fundamentally about more regulation in the market, i.e. it is less capitalistic. The republican party is fundamentally about less regulation, i.e. it is more capitalistic. This has been the case for, at least, decades and is probably the defining characteristic of each party that students will learn first. It is why republicans call democrats "communists".

Corporate America donates to all parties, that's hardly evidence of anything.

Further, contrary to your conspiracies about what democrats might be doing, there are numerous concluded instances of actual consumer protection backsliding during the previous administration - such as the policies pushed through by the FCC.

Not only is your statement groundless, the exact opposite reality is true.

You're right, but not because of politics.

FTC is on a losing streak, with the latest fiasco being the Microsoft Activision acquisition fiasco.

Republicans control the house. That's who would have to pass any legislation. FTC is non-partisan.