citizens_united unhinged 'the many inversions of democratic meaning in citizens united suggests that this decision does far more than permit corporate funds to transform elections in the united states. in its insistence that the corporation must share in the rights of man, its heralding of corporate speech as vital to democracy, and its jettisoning of concerns with equality in access to or effects of political speech, certainly, the court licenses and legitimates unlimited corporate power in politics. but it also does something deeper and more significant: as it submits politics, rights, representation, and speech to economization, it subverts key components of liberal democracy - popular sovereignty, free elections, political freedom, and equality. casting every actor and activity in market terms, it vanquishes the political meaning of citizenship and erases the crucial distinction between economic and political orders essential to the most modest version of popular sovereignty. it aggressively abandons the distinctively political valence and venue of democracy and turns its back on the fragility of democratic conditions and cultures. it supplants democratic political deliberation and voices with a formulation of speech as capital and free speech and unhindered capital right. it reduces political knowledge and political participation to practices of individual or corporate capital enhancement achieved through broadcasting ones economic position as a political one. rendering government regulation or limits as the enemy of freedom everywhere, the court blends flows of capital and speech into a single stream, sharing characteristics and rights against a common enemy: the regulatory state.' -wendy brown 170620 what's it to you? who go blather from