It’s simply a question of who is pulling which strings. Like I said, any centralized power is bad. It leads to nothing but corruption, misuse of power, and loss of liberty.
“any centralized power is bad”
I believe this depends. I know, Americans tend to attack anything that is big and instinctively side with the little guy. Large companies however can bring down costs because of economies of scale in ways that smaller companies cannot. Even a monopoly isn’t necessarily malicious when there are no government barriers to market entry.
Different facades are meaningless. They used the same words and ideas and phrases. Different forms and names of the same thing.