Hate to do it again, another dire prediction but here goes:

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24. It's harmed the American people thereby, allowing what Bernie calls the oligarchs' class war against the working class.

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/great-american-class-war

from Bill Moyers' speech at the Brennan Center’s 2013 Legacy Awards,

The Great American Class War

The historian Plutarch warned us long ago of what happens when there is no brake on the power of great wealth to subvert the electorate. He wrote: “The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts and to the army, and finally, when the sword became enslaved by the power of gold, the Republican was subjected to the rule of emperors.”

We don’t have emperors yet, but we do have the Roberts Court that consistently privileges the donor class.

No emperors yet, but we do have a Senate in which, as a study by the political scientist Larry Bartels reveals, “Senators appear to be considerably more responsive to the opinions of affluent constituents than to those of middle-class constituents, while the opinions of constituents in the bottom third of the income distribution have no apparent statistical effect on their Senators’ roll call votes.”

No emperors yet, but we have a House of Representatives controlled by the far right of the political spectrum that is now nourished by streams of “dark money” unleashed by the gift bestowed on the rich by Citizens United.