On Citizens United and where the real problem is: not in corporate personhood or money-as-speech, but in large part with the idea that freedom of speech is not about ensuring that all citizens have voices that can be heard.
"The struggle will likely be long and difficult. But it is worth waging, both because we can win concrete gains and because it offers progressives an opportunity to change the national dialogue about the First Amendment. Citizens must unite indeed—around the idea that one-sided, mercenary discourse is wholly foreign to the First Amendment." #ddtb
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"Corporate Personhood" Is Not the Problem
The Supreme Court's Citizens United decision decimated what little remained of campaign-finance reform. But the real problem is with the changing notion of "Freedom of Speech."