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- Imagine where this country would be if all the folks who in 2010 created the Tea Party had decided that,
- 想象一下这个国家将会怎样，如果所有2010年创建茶党的人
- you know, politics is too messy, voting is too complicated.
- 认为政治太肮脏，投票太复杂。
- There is no possibility of our votes adding up to anything.
- 我们的投票永远没有机会贡献任何事。
- They didn't preemptively silence themselves.
- 但他们没有沉默。
- They showed up, and in the course of showing up, they changed American politics.
- 他们表达了自己，在表达自我的过程中，他们改变了美国的政治。
- Imagine if all of the followers of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders had decided not to upend the political status quo
- 想象一下如果特朗普和桑德斯的所有拥护者决定不去碰触政治现状，
- and blow apart the frame of the previously possible in American politics. They did that by voting.
- 而是保持原先的美国政治结构会怎样。但他们却通过投票迈出了改变的步伐。
- We live in a time right now, divided, often very dark, where across the left and the right,
- 我们所生活的时代出现了严重的分裂，时常黑暗无比，不论左派右派，
- there's a lot of talk of revolution and the need for revolution to disrupt everyday democracy.
- 都想变革，都有打破常规民主的革命需求。
- Well, here's the thing: everyday democracy already gives us a playbook for revolution.
- 而关键就在于：民主环境已经给了我们革命的脚本。
- In the 2012 presidential election, young voters, Latino voters, Asian-American voters, low-income voters, all showed up at less than 50 percent.
- 在2012年总统选举中，年轻人，拉丁选民，亚裔人，低收入群体，投票率都低于50%。2
- In the 2014 midterm elections, turnout was 36 percent, which was a 70-year low.
- 2014年中期选举是36%，70年来最低。
- And in your average local election, turnout hovers somewhere around 20 percent.
- 地方选举的平均投票率只有20%左右。
- I invite you to imagine 100 percent. Picture 100 percent. Mobilize 100 percent, and overnight, we get revolution.
- 我想请你们想象一下100%。100%的投票率会是何种景象。100%全体动员，一夜之间，我们就会爆发革命。
- Overnight, the policy priorities of this country change dramatically,
- 一夜之间，国家的政治优先权就会剧烈反转，
- and every level of government becomes radically more responsive to all the people.
- 所有级别的政府会更积极回应民众的呼声。
- What would it take to mobilize 100 percent?
- 怎样来全动员100%的人呢？
- Well, we do have to push back against efforts afoot all across the country right now to make voting harder.
- 我们正在为此在全国范围内努力，让投票更有力。
- But at the same time, we have to actively create a positive culture of voting that people want to belong to,
- 同时，要积极创立正面的选举文化，人民乐于追随的文化，
- be part of, and experience together. We have to make purpose. We have to make joy.
- 置身其中，共同经历。要把选举变得有意义，更快乐。
- So yes, let's have that revolution, a revolution of spirit, of ideas, of policy and participation,
- 对，我们现在一起发动革命，精神，观念，政策和参与的革命，
- a revolution against cynicism, a revolution against the self-fulfilling sense of powerlessness.
- 抛弃玩世不恭，抛弃自我无力感。
- Let's vote this revolution into existence, and while we're at it, let's have some fun. Thank you very much.
- 让我们通过选举来实现革命，我们正在路上，让我们享受这个过程。谢谢。
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| radically | ['rædikəli] | |||
| revolution | [.revə'lu:ʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| overnight | ['əuvə'nait] | |||
| voting | ['vəutiŋ] | 联想记忆 | ||
| responsive | [ri'spɔnsiv] | 联想记忆 | ||
| previously | ['pri:vju:sli] | |||
| participation | [pɑ:.tisi'peiʃən] | |||
| silence | ['sailəns] | |||
| election | [i'lekʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| status | ['steitəs] | 联想记忆 |
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