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The thing is, the media's trying to hold up this whole one-party, two-faction system...

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The thing is, the media's trying to hold up this whole one-party, two-faction system...

問題是，媒體想撐起這一整套一黨兩派的體制……

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by telling you that George Bush got this mandate with 54% of the vote.

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1The thing is, the media's trying to hold up this whole one-party, two-faction system...問題是，媒體想撐起這一整套一黨兩派的體制……
2by telling you that George Bush got this mandate with 54% of the vote.告訴你喬治·布什以百分之五十四的選票拿到了民意授權。
3And that just doesn't take into account the whole population of the country.可那根本沒算上全國的所有人口。
4They say that 50.3%, in the media...媒體上說百分之五十點三……
5they say 50.3% of the eligible population participated in the '88 election.說百分之五十點三的合格選民參加了八八年大選。
6But I think the figure's a hell of a lot lower than that. You gotta consider.可我覺得那數字低得多了。你得考慮——
7Prisoners. We got more people incarcerated in this country...囚犯。我們國家關的人……
8than any other country in Western history.比西方歷史上任何國家都多。
9Noncitizens, the underage, the overage, people too old to get to the polls .非公民、未成年人、超齡的，老得去不了投票站的。
10People out in rural areas. People who don't have addresses.農村裡的人，沒有地址的人。
11I mean, to be conservative , the figure's more like 35%.保守估計，那數字更像是百分之三十五。
12So Bush got 54% of 35%. What's that, 18%?那布什拿到百分之三十五里的百分之五十四，是多少，百分之十八？
13Maybe 18% of the people in this country support him.也許這個國家只有百分之十八的人支援他。
14That's nothing. That's nothing. That's not a mandate.那不算什麼，那不算什麼，那不是什麼民意授權。
15- The people in Nazi Germany had- - You guys done male bonding yet?——納粹德國的人有過——你們倆男人之間交流完了沒？
16Nazi Germany in 1932, the Nazis had maybe 34-38%.一九三二年的納粹德國，納粹大概也就百分之三十四到三十八。
17And somebody like Pinochet who's already out of there back in Chile...還有像皮諾切特那種，早下臺回智利了……
18that guy's got maybe 34-43% of the vote.那人也就百分之三十四到四十三的票。
19So 18% is nothing.所以說百分之十八根本不算什麼。
20It just seems like one day it's gonna dawn on everybody...總覺得總有一天大家會恍然大悟……
21that this large nonvoting majority has been winning every election...這個龐大的不投票多數，一直在贏下每一場選舉……
22for the past three decades.過去三十年都是如此。
23And the people who win these elections are gonna be too ashamed ...而那些贏得選舉的人會羞愧得……
24or better yet, too afraid to even take power at all.或者說，乾脆怕得根本不敢接權。

為什麼值得練

把百分之五十四一路拆到百分之十八，數字成了武器，最後一句把勝利者也說怕了。

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