In the Citizens United case, Justice Anthony Kennedy raised concerns that corporate knowledge would be lost if corporations were unable to engage in speech (political donations): Government silences a corporate objector, and those corporations may have the most knowledge of this on the subject. Corporations have lots of knowledge about environment, transportation issues, and you are silencing them during the election.

This argument is as artificial as classical economics’ concept of  Homo Economicus because it ignores how humans and society actually function.

In reality, when corporations “speak” to provide their “knowledge‘, it isn’t to distribute publications about the environment that their scientists discovered when they studied global warming. Rather, it means that they pay money to political front groups that pay political consultants to create 30-second ads on a completely different wedge issue, like gay marriage or CRT or DEI.

On August 21, 1790, George Washington wrote:

for, happily, the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.