Last week I took part in an American TV chat show with Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli professor and author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. During the conversation the host, Bill Maher, lamented that a “slate of election deniers” are running for seats in next week’s US midterms. Harari winced, and solemnly suggested that American democracy is now so troubled that “the next presidential election could be the last democratic election in US history”. He added: “It is not a high chance, but it could be the case.”
上周，我參加了一檔美國(guó)電視訪談節(jié)目，嘉賓是以色列教授、《智人：人類簡(jiǎn)史》(Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)一書(shū)的作者尤瓦爾?諾厄?哈拉里(Yuval Noah Harari)。訪談中，主持人比爾?馬厄(Bill Maher)哀嘆道，“一批選舉否認(rèn)者”將在本周舉行的美國(guó)中期選舉中角逐國(guó)會(huì)席位。哈拉里皺起眉頭，嚴(yán)肅地提出，美國(guó)的民主制度目前陷入如此深重的困境，以至于“下屆總統(tǒng)大選可能是美國(guó)歷史上最后一次民主選舉”。他補(bǔ)充道：“幾率不大，但是是有可能的。”