Biden Bans Non-Competes

By Leo Gura - April 25, 2024

Great news!

This would never happen under a Republican or Trump administration. In fact, Republicans and Trump will likely use the Supreme Court to re-instate non-competes and hamstring the FTC. A big part of the Republican judicial agenda is to strip power from regulatory agencies like the FTC, EPA, FDA, CPA, etc. These agencies protect little people from corporate exploitation.

This is why conservative and MAGA populism is bullshit. They don’t actually pass laws that help little people, they pass laws and pack the courts with judges who defend corporate monopolies, ridiculous tax loopholes for the richest 1%, and consider corporations to have human rights. Trump doesn’t care about defending little people, because there’s no profit in that. The profit is in defending powerful corporate interests.

Don’t let anyone fool you that Biden and Trump are equally bad. They are not. The Biden administration has taken real action to curb corporate overreach, by cracking down on monopolies. The Biden administration has sued Google, Amazon, Apple, and others over their monopolistic abuses of power. It’s actually Democrats who are fighting corporations on behalf of little people, not conservatives. Conservatives, including MAGA, are defending the status quo — despite all their noisy rhetoric. And the status quo is corporatism, monopoly, oligarchy, and anti-democracy. If you think that voting for Trump will help you against corporate elitism you’ve fallen for Trump’s con. Trump IS an elitist. He has contempt for little people and he does not care about actually doing the hard and uncomfortable work necessary for defending human rights. The status quo is to trample human rights, and that’s exactly the system that conservatives conserve.

You can easily see that conservative populism is bullshit because conservatives pass no laws to reign in corporate power, they do the opposite under the guise of “freedom”. Yes, American conservatives want corporations to be free to rape you and your children. Of course conservatives will deny this, but in practice that’s effectively what their notion of “freedom” entails, whether they realize it or not. Many of them are just in denial about it because they benefit from it, or because they are lost fighting the conservative culture wars. But the culture wars are just a distraction from the legislative and judicial reality that conservative policy defends corporations and the top 1% more than anyone else.

Of course Democrats are not all pure. They also defend corporate interests in many cases because of lobbying and corrupt incentives. But they are better than these loud-mouthed conservative populists. You have to judge a party by what it does and who its legislation helps, not what it says, and not the culture war issues. If conservatives could see past the culture wars, they would see that their party is on the side of corporate monopolies and anti-free market. The aim of every major corporation is to destroy free markets. Because that’s what they need to maximize profits.

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