From the Supreme Court of the United States, it would appear the worst is yet to come, and considering the extent of America’s foundational damage already traceable to its top legal minds, no one who’s paid a lick of attention should be surprised.
It would be hard to imagine a more corrosive decision than the one the court rendered in 2010’s Citizens United case, which overturned only about 100 years of campaign finance restrictions, thus allowing corporations and the billionaires who run them to spend at will on elections.
By one informed estimate, billionaires spent $31 million on elections in 2010. This year, they’ll spend $1.2 billion, pumping in about 39 times the toxicity of what the election cycle held just 12 years ago. So what could be worse?
