How about NOBODY gets all that power? Why is that concept so difficult to consider? Why is the paradigm of "either predator or prey" so hard to cut loose?

Private organizations answer to those they sell to, and probably more so than politicians actually answer to voters. Make a list of all the things you've purchased over the past month or so. How many of those were you forced to buy by a particular manufacturer? How many of them didn't give you at least some choice as to who to buy from? Even Microsoft has to work to hold market share. GM was once considered an indestructible titan. Science fiction books showed a future in which Ford was a god. Yet neither automobile giant could keep me from buying a Toyota.

There should be a reasonable place somewhere between Teddy Roosevelt and the modern socialist Democrats where markets are free except for certain limited and rational restraints and regulations. When did basic ideas like anti-trust laws expand to the point where the State has to micromanage every aspect of our existence?