Regardless of the reasoning behind Citizen's United, one outcome has been an extraordinary increase in corruption. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/opinion/c

Regardless of the reasoning behind Citizen's United, one outcome has been an extraordinary increase in corruption. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/opinion/citizens-united-corruption-pacs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/opinion/citizens-united-c... It is immaterial whether the increased corruption was an incidental side effect, or the whole point. From the perspective of the individual citizens being exploited, it doesn't matter whether it was the government exploiting them or a corporation exploiting them after having bought the franchise from the government.