主题：美国精英对美国选票制度的批判。 -- dolong

[URL=http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/12/how-america-can-rise-again/7839/

]Atlantic: How America Can Rise Again[/URL]

Author: James Fallows

January/ February 2010

目录是：

1) One Reason Not to Worry: We Have Been Here Before

2) Another Reason Not to Worry: The Irrelevance of “Falling Behind”

3) The Crucial American Advantage

4) The Main Concerns: （ jobs, debt, military strength, and overall independence.）这里的concern 都谈到了中国，特别是军事。

5) The Biggest Problem. 作者谈到了政府，需要政府转型：America needed “a government as good as its people.”

6) What Is To Be Done?（America is not going to have a Communist revolution nor endure “100 Years of Humiliation,” as Imperial China did. 老美还知道中国的百年屈辱？）

a）这家伙想要政变：We could hope for an enlightened military coup, or some other deus ex machina by the right kind of tyrants.

b）民主政治改革：We could hope to change the basic nature of our democracy, so it fits the times as our other institutions do.

c）修改宪法：In principle, the United States could call for a new constitutional convention, to reconsider all the rules.

d）新的外来威胁改变美国人：We might hope for another Sputnik moment.

e）作者有点失望： Our government is old and broken and dysfunctional, and may even be beyond repair.

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