A glimpse of what the Left is up to:
We progressives have been in quite a tizzy about Citizens United, especially now that 2012 election cycle is swamped with Super PAC money. Citizens United,
you’ll remember, is the 2010 Supreme Court case saying that
corporations have the same rights to engage in political speech as you
and I do. In response, a number of progressives have proposed constitutional amendments to do away with corporate “personhood.”
…Instead of amending the constitution to weaken corporate “personhood,”
we should focus on changing corporations themselves so that overturning Citizens United
would be unnecessary. We should use this historical moment to nudge
corporations closer to what the Supreme Court assumed they are in its Citizens United
decision — “associations of citizens.” While the constitutional effort
is defensive and palliative, a campaign to redesign the corporation
itself would be affirmative and transformative. To cure Citizens United, we don’t have to amend the Constitution — we need to rethink corporations.