January 30, 1976 is to plutocracy in the United States what July 4, 1776 was to its democracy. The fortieth anniversary of Buckley v Valeo, the 1976 Supreme Court decision that legalized systemic political corruption and fraud, presents an opportunity to assess its continuing impact.

The importance of the decision will be known to those who have successfully tracked the telltale footprints of causality back from,

1) the United States’ record-setting and still growing economic inequality, along with

2) its systemically dysfunctional domestic and expensive foreign policies, caused by

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