You're going through a lot of twisted logic and hoop jumping just to get around one court decision you don't like. I'm quite baffled why you think doing away with the very long-standing and very useful legal fiction of corporate personhood is worth the mental contortions you're engaging in. Citizens United won't end the world anymore than Roe v. Wade did for the conservative right. Both were correct decisions made on a reasonable interpretation of the Constitution given the particular topic at hand wasn't directly addressed.
First, you'll find I've been railing against the "corporations are people too" fiction for years here, long before
Citizens United was even on the horizon. That ruling coupled with the equally odious decision that bribery (i.e., money) is protected speech are the single greatest reason our government today is so corrupted. Special interests with deep pockets have perverted our system to serve them rather than We, the People. A capitalist democracy works best when there is a healthy balance and meaningful constraints, emphasizing the interests of the citizenry while still presenting a robust business environment. We lost that balance long ago.
Second, I've offered no twisted logic at all. In fact, I don't see how the basic foundation I gave is even arguable, let alone controversial. The Constitution was written for We, the People ... not we, the corporations. The
Bill of Rights starts with the premise that certain rights are innate to the People (i.e., humans), that they are inalienable, and that the state may not infringe those rights. Corporations and other such organizations aren't covered in the Constitution. Given that their very existence is defined by law, it follows logically that their privileges and constraints are also defined by law, NOT by the Constitution. It was a notably corrupt Supreme Court that ruled otherwise so many years ago. That fiction has been harming Americans ever since.
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