Voters function merely as a medium for corporate political influence

Evidence

If voters have the “ultimate influence,” but corporations seek to persuade them via super PACS, has he not effectively confessed that voters are but a medium through which corporations wield their political influence? Has democracy become more than a scrubbing or a shield of legitimation for corporate domination? — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 346

Categorization

• QUESTION: The question whether democracy becomes a ‘shield of legitimation for corporate domination’ is worth pressing against Brown’s own prior account of state power.
• XREF: connects to: Group-interest voters lack the contextual grasp to respond ideologically without elite guidance

Broader Connections

• Group-interest voters lack the contextual grasp to respond ideologically without elite guidance #expands (0.78)