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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...

问题是，媒体想撑起这一整套一党两派的体制……

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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...问题是，媒体想撑起这一整套一党两派的体制……
2by telling you that George Bush got this mandate with 54% of the vote.告诉你乔治·布什以百分之五十四的选票拿到了民意授权。
3And that just doesn't take into account the whole population of the country.可那根本没算上全国的所有人口。
4They say that 50.3%, in the media...媒体上说百分之五十点三……
5they say 50.3% of the eligible population participated in the '88 election.说百分之五十点三的合格选民参加了八八年大选。
6But I think the figure's a hell of a lot lower than that. You gotta consider.可我觉得那数字低得多了。你得考虑——
7Prisoners. We got more people incarcerated in this country...囚犯。我们国家关的人……
8than any other country in Western history.比西方历史上任何国家都多。
9Noncitizens, the underage, the overage, people too old to get to the polls .非公民、未成年人、超龄的，老得去不了投票站的。
10People out in rural areas. People who don't have addresses.农村里的人，没有地址的人。
11I mean, to be conservative , the figure's more like 35%.保守估计，那数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.也许这个国家只有百分之十八的人支持他。
14That's nothing. That's nothing. That's not a mandate.那不算什么，那不算什么，那不是什么民意授权。
15- The people in Nazi Germany had- - You guys done male bonding yet?——纳粹德国的人有过——你们俩男人之间交流完了没？
16Nazi Germany in 1932, the Nazis had maybe 34-38%.一九三二年的纳粹德国，纳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...还有像皮诺切特那种，早下台回智利了……
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.所以说百分之十八根本不算什么。
20It just seems like one day it's gonna dawn on everybody...总觉得总有一天大家会恍然大悟……
21that this large nonvoting majority has been winning every election...这个庞大的不投票多数，一直在赢下每一场选举……
22for the past three decades.过去三十年都是如此。
23And the people who win these elections are gonna be too ashamed ...而那些赢得选举的人会羞愧得……
24or better yet, too afraid to even take power at all.或者说，干脆怕得根本不敢接权。

为什么值得练

把百分之五十四一路拆到百分之十八，数字成了武器，最后一句把胜利者也说怕了。

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