In the view of the three Republicans on the FEC, then, Citizen’s United means not only that a corporation or union can deploy money in an independent effort to affect the outcome of an election (including money that rightfully belongs to its shareholders), but that it can deploy any other resources it controls—including its employees’ time, both on and off the clock.
How can this be?
Which is frankly terrifying. It also amusingly plays into the narrative from the far left that wage labor is tantamount to slavery.
That one owns oneself should be the most inalienable right for every person everywhere. All other rights derive from that fact that one is one's own master, and has dominion over himself and his possessions. Any attempt to ascribe ownership of a person to another person is a fundamental violation of the most fundamental human right.