who benefits most from Citizen's United?

There has been much talk lately about the impact of Citizen's United.  This is the Supreme Court activist decision that stated that, like people, corporations have the right to freedom of speech which includes giving money to political candidates.  But unlike people, they can give unlimited amounts of money, and unlike people, they do not have to let the public know who is donating nor how much.   The problem with the anonymity is that we can easily have foreign parties using their money to influence our policies.  In the run-up to the election,  the Chinese Chamber of Commerce was very concerned that the Democrats do not retain power because they are not as comfortable with outsourcing, and the Chinese depend on the exportation of our jobs to them.  

The general consensus is that will benefit the Republican Party more, because they tend to have stronger ties with big business and big business are the ones who can afford to spend millions of dollars to support particular candidates or parties (I know I  can't donate millions to affect an election, but a CEO could).

So we talk about on whose behalf the money is being paid.  And we talk (and speculate) about who is paying the money.  But who is the money being paid to?  This last election saw about 4 Billions dollars spent (much more than any election prior).  Where did that money go?  Media buys.  The Media is the greatest beneficiary of this new buy-the-election culture.  And no one's talking about that.  Well, at least no one in the media.  

There is much concern about the consolidation of power in the media.  The vast majority of stations and newspapers are owned by a very small number of companies; all of which can filter the news to push whatever agenda they have.  All are owned by billionaires and their agenda is naturally to benefit themselves.  So the dominant message in the media was "you need to spend a lot of money to win an election".  This really worked out great for them.

The real kicker is that it is true.  All you need is a lot of media, and you can change public opinion.  Especially these days when reporters no longer investigate, pry, and follow-up; candidates can say whater they want.  Especially when our population is less educated than more of the developed world (in terms of educational standardized testing).  Thomas Jefferson wrote that An Educated public is the best defense against tyranny (or something like that).  The flipside is that the Ignorant are easliy manipulated.  So those in power should want us uneducated and docile.

In the purely capitalist society, the biggest dogs will always win.