Krugman on the Current State of Bipartisanship

The fact that common sense is seen as hate-filled radicalism and that hate-filled radicalism is seen as common sense seems to sum up our current national political landscape. But there are true believers, and then there are those who like to tell the true believers what to think of as true. Krugman explains:

We tend to think of the way things are now, with a huge army of lobbyists permanently camped in the corridors of power, with corporations prepared to unleash misleading ads and organize fake grass-roots protests against any legislation that threatens their bottom line, as the way it always was. But our corporate-cash-dominated system is a relatively recent creation, dating mainly from the late 1970s.