Well, here's the deal - corporations are obligated, by statute, to protect profits at the expense of all else, including moral behavior or the good of the country.<p>And that's fine.  I'm not some dreadlocked hippie who wants to burn the corporations to the ground as I'm consuming things that are produced by them.  I recognize their value.  That's great.<p>They are not, however, good citizens.  They're obligated, by statute, to be <i>bad</i> citizens if that's more profitable to them.<p>If someone I disagree with wants to influence the process based on a set of principled beliefs, well fine, I'll fight them to the extent I can but I'll certainly respect them.  However, corporations aren't people - if they were people, they'd be psychotic, amoral people who only lived to sell peanut butter or whatever.  They don't deserve to have more of a say in the process than I do.