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发信人: scidem (羊你个驼), 信区: Military
标 题: 斯坦福毕业演讲炮轰Trump,"政治旁氏骗局,历史耻辱!"
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Wed Jun 15 13:41:14 2016, 美东)
好莱坞导演Ken Burns在斯坦福大学2016毕业演讲上炮轰唐纳德·特朗普的总统竞选是"
美国历史的耻辱"，是一个"政治旁氏骗局"。
For 216 years, our elections, though bitterly contested, have featured the
philosophies and character of candidates who were clearly qualified. That is
not the case this year. One is glaringly not qualified. So before you do
anything with your well-earned degree, you must do everything you can to
defeat the retrograde forces that have invaded our democratic process,
divided our house, to fight against, no matter your political persuasion,
the dictatorial tendencies of the candidate with zero experience in the much
maligned but subtle art of governance; who is against lots of things, but
doesn’t seem to be for anything, offering only bombastic and contradictory
promises, and terrifying Orwellian statements; a person who easily lies,
creating an environment where the truth doesn’t seem to matter; who has
never demonstrated any interest in anyone or anything but himself and his
own enrichment; who insults veterans, threatens a free press, mocks the
handicapped, denigrates women, immigrants and all Muslims; a man who took
more than a day to remember to disavow a supporter who advocates white
supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan; an infantile, bullying man who, depending on
his mood, is willing to discard old and established alliances, treaties and
long-standing relationships. I feel genuine sorrow for the understandably
scared and – they feel – powerless people who have flocked to his campaign
in the mistaken belief that – as often happens on TV – a wand can be
waved and every complicated problem can be solved with the simplest of
solutions. They can’t. It is a political Ponzi scheme. And asking this man
to assume the highest office in the land would be like asking a newly minted
car driver to fly a 747.
As a student of history, I recognize this type. He emerges everywhere and in
all eras. We see nurtured in his campaign an incipient proto-fascism, a
nativist anti-immigrant Know Nothing-ism, a disrespect for the judiciary,
the prospect of women losing authority over their own bodies, African
Americans again asked to go to the back of the line, voter suppression
gleefully promoted, jingoistic saber rattling, a total lack of historical
awareness, a political paranoia that, predictably, points fingers, always
making the other wrong. These are all virulent strains that have at times
infected us in the past. But they now loom in front of us again – all
happening at once. We know from our history books that these are the
diseases of ancient and now fallen empires. The sense of commonwealth, of
shared sacrifice, of trust, so much a part of American life, is eroding fast
, spurred along and amplified by an amoral Internet that permits a lie to
circle the globe three times before the truth can get started.
We no longer have the luxury of neutrality or “balance,” or even of
bemused disdain. Many of our media institutions have largely failed to
expose this charlatan, torn between a nagging responsibility to good
journalism and the big ratings a media circus always delivers. In fact, they
have given him the abundant airtime he so desperately craves, so much so
that it has actually worn down our natural human revulsion to this kind of
behavior. Hey, he’s rich; he must be doing something right. He is not.
Edward R. Murrow would have exposed this naked emperor months ago. He is an
insult to our history. Do not be deceived by his momentary “good behavior.
” It is only a spoiled, misbehaving child hoping somehow to still have
dessert.
And do not think that the tragedy in Orlando underscores his points. It does
not. We must “disenthrall ourselves,” as Abraham Lincoln said, from the
culture of violence and guns. And then “we shall save our country.”
This is not a liberal or conservative issue, a red state, blue state divide.
This is an American issue. Many honorable people, including the last two
Republican presidents, members of the party of Abraham Lincoln, have
declined to support him. And I implore those “Vichy Republicans” who have
endorsed him to please, please reconsider. We must remain committed to the
kindness and community that are the hallmarks of civilization and reject the
troubling, unfiltered Tourette’s of his tribalism. |
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