It's difficult to look beyond the tumult of current events and ask: "what happened this year that will be remembered ten, twenty, or fifty years from now?" However, there was one 2010 event that looms above the others: the Citizens United v. FEC Supreme Court Decision. That decision signifies a new phase of American history -- the Corporatist period where multinational corporations have unbridled political influence to systematically and profoundly weaken our democracy.