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America’s political system has been hijacked to ensure those with power keep it.
美国的政治制度遭到劫持，以确保有权力的人继续拥有它。
If you look at American politics and think everything is fine, this video is not for you. To the rest of us, things seem pretty broken.
如果你认为美国政治一切都很好，那么这个视频不适合你。对我们其他人来说，事情似乎已经崩溃了。
I mean, our forefathers created a beautiful system and we live in a magical country. How the hell did things get so bad?
我的意思是，我们的先辈创造了一个完美的系统，我们生活在一个伟大的国家。可事情为什么会变得如此糟糕呢？
These days, just 2% of Americans trust that our elections work how they’re supposed to. Congress has an approval rating of 20%. Our leaders are locked in partisan warfare and they aren’t fixing anything. And we're angry. We're angry at the system, at each other. Our country's getting poorer, sicker, more divided and our families are paying the price.
如今，只有2％的美国人相信我们的选举能够达到预期的效果。国会的支持率为20％。我们的领导人陷入党派战争，什么问题都无法解决。而我们变得愤怒，对这个体制感到愤怒，对彼此感到愤怒。我们的国家变得越来越贫穷，越来越病，越来越分裂，我们的家庭为此付出了代价。
We don’t even talk to each other anymore! America’s political system has been hijacked to ensure those with power keep it. And for the rest of us? Well, it’s not so good.
我们甚至不再互相交谈！美国的政治制度遭到劫持，以确保掌握权力的人继续拥有它。对于我们其余的人呢？当然，不会好过。
America’s two major political parties. In 2019, both major parties publicly threatened to blacklist candidates and contractors who veered from the party lines. They control the money, the debates, the primaries, they even draw their own voting districts.
那怎么可能？该报告将其归咎于两个私立的、寻求收益的组织……美国的两个主要政党。在2019年，两个主要政党都公开威胁将偏离政党路线的候选人和承包商列入黑名单。他们控制资金、辩论、初选，甚至划出自己的投票区。
A full 61% of Americans want another option, but any third party or independent who runs is seen as a “spoiler.” So year after year, we choose between the lesser of two evils… Democrats. Republicans. Republicans. Democrats. In any other environment, a new competitor would swoop in to better serve their constituency — You hate your cable company? Here comes streaming — but the two parties have rigged the system to block competition.
有61％的美国人想要其他选择，但任何第三方或独立人士如果加入进来就会被视为“破坏者”。因此，年复一年，我们在两种邪恶中的较小者之间进行选择：民主党，共和党；共和党，民主党。在任何其他环境中，新的竞争者都会涌入，以更好地为他们的人民服务——不喜欢你的有线电视公司吗？那可以使用流——但民主共和两党已经操纵了政治体制阻止竞争。
But it gets worse... In 86% of House races, we now know which party will win the general election before it even starts.
但是情况变得更糟了……在86％的众议院竞选中，我们在大选开始之前就能知道哪一个政党会赢得大选。
That means all of the competition is in the primaries. Where as few as 14% of voters participate. And primary voters tend to be more partisan than those who vote in the general election. So the most partisan candidates win the primary, they’re virtually guaranteed to win the general, so you can guess what happens next.
这意味着所有竞争都在初选阶段。只有14％的选民参与其中。与大选相比，主要选民更倾向于党派。因此，多数党派候选人赢得了初选，他们几乎可以保证赢得大选，因此你可以猜测接下来会发生什么。
For the first time since the Great Depression, life expectancy in the U.S. is actually going DOWN, while it goes up in the rest of the world. We were once ranked top in the world for education. We’ve fallen to 27th. We can’t afford life-saving prescriptions, and medical bills are forcing families into bankruptcy. Almost HALF of American families can’t even afford basic necessities like rent and food.
自大萧条以来，美国人的预期寿命实际上正在下降，而世界其他地区却在上升。我们曾经在教育方面排名世界第一，下载跌至第27位。我们负担不起挽救生命的药物，医疗费用正迫使美国家庭破产。几乎有一半的美国家庭甚至负担不起房租和食物等基本必需品。
What I want to know is, how do we fix it?
我想知道的是，我们该如何解决？
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