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Paul Krugman names the real cause of many of our problems: the corporate owned tradmed's cult of balance, the cult of false equivalencies:

Think about what’s happening right now. We have a crisis in which the right is making insane demands, while the president and Democrats in Congress are bending over backward to be accommodating — offering plans that are all spending cuts and no taxes, plans that are far to the right of public opinion.

So what do most news reports say? They portray it as a situation in which both sides are equally partisan, equally intransigent — because news reports always do that. And we have influential pundits calling out for a new centrist party, a new centrist president, to get us away from the evils of partisanship.

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What all this means is that there is no penalty for extremism; no way for most voters, who get their information on the fly rather than doing careful study of the issues, to understand what’s really going on.

Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal: The Cult That Is Destroying America

He's right, but he misses one point.  There is no penalty for right wing extremism.

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