Mahesh Muralidhar tried to hedge this statement by tacking on "consumers and" before each reference to "businesses", and tacking on a handwave at "communities" on the end. But when you prune out that meaningless decoration, what he said is pretty clear. National will strip decision-making power from democratic institutions accountable to citizens, and give it to profit-motivated ones accountable only to owners. Our only role in their "democracy" is deciding where to shop. One dollar, one vote.