No Liberty is Safe
Yet in America today the threat of concentrated control is greater than any time in at least a century, perhaps ever. Radical changes a generation ago in how we enforce our anti- monopoly and trade laws cleared the way for a few giant corporations – some tied to foreign states – to assert mastery over almost every corner of our economy. These new monopolies have upset basic balances in our democracy and our society.
This intense and fast growing concentration of power helps to explain many of the most pressing ills in America today – great and growing inequality, the instability of our financial system, political dysfunction in Washington, the degradation of jobs and the sharp decline in entrepreneurial opportunity, health care no one can afford, crumbling communities and broken families and individuals crippled by mass marketed addictions. The effects of these ills fall especially hard on people of color, and low-income and rural communities.
Amazon, Google and other online super-monopolists, armed with massive dossiers of data on every American, are tightening their grip on the most vital arteries of commerce, and their control over the media we use to share news and information with one another.
The mission of Open Markets
is to empower Americans to reclaim all the freedoms fundamental to a happy life as independent and fully engaged citizens.
This includes the freedom to earn a fair wage for hard work and the freedom to start a business and build it up. It includes the freedom to sell the products of our farms, our hands, and our minds on open markets at fair prices. It includes the freedom to talk freely and share trustworthy news with one another. It includes the freedom to provide good food and good health care and good education to our children. It includes the freedom to build communities and families in our own ways.
It includes the freedom that comes from knowing our nation is safe and our world is at peace.
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