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Act One: Normal Life In An Abnormal Setting Ira Glass The trick to getting a politician's autograph, John Rossi tells me, is to try to do it before they go up to speak.
第一幕：异常环境中的正常生活 艾拉·格拉斯 约翰·罗西告诉我，获得政客签名的秘诀就是在他们上台讲话之前尝试这样做。
If you wait till afterwards, they'll be mobbed.
如果等到事后，他们就会被围攻。
And sure enough, when he spots Pennsylvania's governor waiting to take his turn at a podium, Rossi darts up to him with a special gold pen he brought just for this purpose, and a photo taken in Allentown a couple months ago, of him and the governor.
果然，当他看到宾夕法尼亚州州长在讲台上等待发言时，罗西拿着一支专门为此目的带来的特殊金笔，以及几个月前在阿伦敦拍摄的他和州长的照片，冲向他。
In about a minute, he returns with his prize.
大约一分钟后，他带着奖品回来了。
It says, "To John Rossi with appreciation and friendship, Tom Ridge."
上面写着：“汤姆·里奇，致以感激和友谊的约翰·罗西。”
Obviously, get it framed.
显然，把它框起来。
And I've gotten my photo taken with a lot of very well-known politicians.
我还和很多知名政治家合影。
I've already gotten Jack Kemp, Pat Robertson, Pat Buchanan.
我已经找到了杰克·坎普、帕特·罗伯逊、帕特·布坎南。
A whole bunch of them, over time, I've collected pictures of myself with.
随着时间的推移，我收集了一大堆自己的照片。
John's an accountant from Whitehall, Pennsylvania, and a low-level party functionary, a Republican area captain in charge of 15 polling places, treasurer of various Lehigh Valley Republican committees and campaigns.
约翰是宾夕法尼亚州白厅的一名会计师，也是一名党内低层官员、负责 15 个投票站的共和党地区队长、各个利哈伊谷共和党委员会和竞选活动的财务主管。
He calls himself very conservative.
他称自己非常保守。
He believes, for instance, in a 100% ban on abortions-- no exceptions-- including if a mother's life is in danger.
例如，他认为应该 100% 禁止堕胎——无一例外——包括在母亲生命面临危险的情况下堕胎。
At 38, he is still a proud member of the Young Republicans.
38 岁的他仍然是年轻共和党的一名值得骄傲的成员。
Young for Republicans is officially anybody who's under the age of 40, under their rules.
根据他们的规定，共和党人的“年轻人”正式是指 40 岁以下的任何人。
And John's experience at this week's Republican Convention was most definitely not what you've been seeing on television all week.
约翰在本周的共和党全国代表大会上的经历绝对不是你整个星期在电视上看到的那样。
We basically have a lot of activities.
我们基本上有很多活动。
For example, SeaWorld, the zoo, Tijuana, plus parties like this that we have throughout the week.
例如，海洋世界、动物园、蒂华纳，还有我们整个星期举办的这样的派对。
We have a nice hotel here with a pool and all kinds of other activities.
我们这里有一家不错的酒店，有游泳池和各种其他活动。
So we have those things to do.
所以我们有这些事情要做。
Basically, it's a vacation?
基本上，这是一个假期？
John Rossi It's a vacation, sure.
约翰·罗西 当然，这是一个假期。
Well, from WBEZ Chicago, it's This American Life .
嗯，来自 WBEZ 芝加哥，这是《This American Life》。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Each week on our program, of course, we choose a theme and ask a number of writers and performers to have at the theme.
当然，每周我们的节目都会选择一个主题，并邀请一些作家和表演者参与该主题。
And this week we bring you a look at the Republican Party and its convention from perspectives you perhaps have not heard in coverage so far.
本周，我们将从您迄今为止在报道中可能没有听说过的角度来带您了解共和党及其代表大会。
Act One, everyday life at the convention.
第一幕，大会的日常生活。
What do those people actually do all day long?
这些人到底一天到晚都在做什么呢？
Act Two, a Walter-Mondale-voting, gay-rights-supporting, unrepentant liberal signs up as a Republican Party member and ends up a delegate to the convention.
第二幕，一位支持沃尔特·蒙代尔、支持同性恋权利、顽固不化的自由派人士报名成为共和党成员，并最终成为大会代表。
Act Three, we have the newest installment of Michael Lewis's campaign diaries.
第三幕，我们看到了迈克尔·刘易斯最新一期的竞选日记。
If you have not heard these or read these at all, they are some of the most evocative and original reporting anybody's doing this year on the election.
如果您还没有听过或根本没有读过这些内容，那么它们是任何人今年就选举所做的最令人回味和原创的报道。
Stay with us.
留在我们身边。
Act One, Normal Life in an Abnormal Setting.
第一幕，异常环境中的正常生活。
Chances are that if you've paid even a slight amount of attention to what's happened at this convention, you've heard how the right wing of the party dominated the drafting of the party platform, but how the party leadership wanted to look more moderate and inclusive for the television cameras.
如果你稍微关注一下这次大会上发生的事情，你很可能会听说党的右翼如何主导党纲的起草，但党的领导层希望在电视镜头面前显得更加温和和包容。
And so we had key speeches during primetime by pro-choice moderates like Colin Powell and Susan Molinari.
因此，我们在黄金时段发表了科林·鲍威尔和苏珊·莫里纳里等支持堕胎的温和派的重要演讲。
Well, in addition to all that, the leadership told right-wing advocacy groups, like the National Rifle Association and the right-to-life organizations, that they would not be allowed to set up booths inside the convention hall.
好吧，除此之外，领导层还告诉右翼倡导团体，如全国步枪协会和生命权组织，他们将不被允许在会议厅内设立摊位。
So a renegade vice chairman from the California Republican Party named [?
因此，来自加州共和党的一位叛变副主席名叫[？
Bach ?] [?
巴赫 ？] [？
Pan ?] arranged to have a 70-foot boat docked just outside the convention hall.
潘？]安排一艘70英尺长的船停靠在会议厅外。
The hall happens to stand next to a marina.
大厅恰好位于码头旁边。
And three times a day, he organized receptions on that boat for different right-wing groups.
他每天三次在船上为不同的右翼团体组织招待会。
He stood on the deck and explained.
他站在甲板上解释道。
?] Right now it's the gun owner.
？] 现在是枪的拥有者。
In the afternoon, there will be SAFE California, three strikes, you're out initiative.
下午，SAFE California，三击，你就出局了。
On Wednesday, I'll be hosting the National Right to Life, the California Civil Rights Initiative.
周三，我将主持全国生命权、加州民权倡议活动。
Last Saturday, I hosted an event for California educational freedom.
上周六，我主持了一场加州教育自由活动。
That is the school voucher.
那是学校的优惠券。
Although the official Republican line this week has been that there is peace between the moderates and conservatives in the party, you can measure the distance between the two camps by the distance between this 70-foot catamaran and the convention floor.
尽管共和党本周的官方路线是党内温和派和保守派之间保持和平，但你可以通过这艘70英尺长的双体船与会议场地之间的距离来衡量两个阵营之间的距离。
They're close enough to see each other, but not completely under the same roof.
他们距离很近，可以看到对方，但又不完全在同一个屋檐下。
On the boat, people mill around, eat fresh fruit, network.
船上，人们闲逛，吃着新鲜的水果，结交网络。
Irish for Dole and the Irish American Assembly, yeah.
爱尔兰人支持多尔和爱尔兰裔美国议会，是的。
Do you have a card or something so we can contact you when we head back to Washington?
您有卡片或其他什么东西，以便我们返回华盛顿时可以联系您吗？
Two women wearing "Viva Dole" buttons take flyers from a guy who's wearing a green "Ask me about the National Assembly of Irish American Republicans" button.
两名佩戴“多尔万岁”徽章的妇女从一名佩戴绿色“向我询问爱尔兰裔美国共和党国民议会”按钮的男子手中接过传单。
My father switched to Republican and all of us boys--
我父亲转投共和党，而我们所有的男孩——
My father was the national chairman of the Irish Democratic Committee for years.
我父亲多年来担任爱尔兰民主党委员会全国主席。
He's dead now and I know he voted for Reagan before he died.
他现在死了，我知道他死前投票给里根。
It used to be that the Irish-Catholics in particular, but Irish Americans period, were far more Democratic.
过去，特别是爱尔兰天主教徒，但在爱尔兰裔美国人时期，更加民主。
Now, the most recent poll-- it's 47% of Irish Americans say they're going to vote Democratic.
现在，最新的民意调查显示，47% 的爱尔兰裔美国人表示他们将投票给民主党。
43% say they're going to vote Republican.
43% 的人表示他们将投票给共和党。
So that's--
所以那就是——
It's a sign of the changes in American politics and the vitality of the Republican Party that many of the people who you meet here at the convention have switched over from the Democratic Party in the last decade or so.
你在大会上遇到的许多人在过去十年左右的时间里已经从民主党转向了民主党，这表明美国政治发生了变化，也体现了共和党的活力。
Over by the navigation equipment, the head of the Gun Owners of America and a guy from the National Rifle Association give interviews to reporters explaining why they're not supporting the Kemp-Dole ticket and making sweeping statements like--
在导航设备旁边，美国枪支拥有者协会的负责人和全国步枪协会的一名人员接受记者采访，解释为什么他们不支持坎普-多尔票，并发表了笼统的声明，比如——
I know that the ticket right now is going to go down unless they bring gun owners into the fold.
我知道，除非他们让枪支拥有者加入进来，否则现在的门票将会下降。
Organized gun owners in the country is bigger than the Jewish vote.
该国有组织的枪支拥有者比犹太人的选票还要大。
It's bigger than a lot of other groups that are out there.
它比其他许多团体都要大。
At some point during this soiree, someone introduces me to a congressional candidate named Chuck Wojslaw.
在这次晚会的某个时刻，有人向我介绍了一位名叫查克·沃伊斯瓦夫的国会候选人。
He's a retired professor of electronics engineering, running in a mostly Democratic district on the east side of San Jose.
他是一位退休的电子工程教授，在圣何塞东部一个主要是民主党的选区竞选。
Until 10 years ago, he was a Democrat.
直到10年前，他还是一名民主党人。
Now he stands among Republicans in the afternoon sun, wearing a red, white, and blue bicentennial tie.
现在，他站在午后阳光下的共和党人中间，系着一条红、白、蓝二百周年纪念领带。
He spent his time at the convention attending seminars run by GOPAC.
他在大会期间参加了 GOPAC 举办的研讨会。
That's Newt Gingrich's former political action committee.
那是纽特·金里奇的前政治行动委员会。
And these seminars are on how to be an effective candidate in the last two months of the campaign-- how to do fund-raising, how to manage your time and your people in the last two months, how to respond to the Democratic Party propaganda about Medicare and Medicaid, how to bridge the gender gap, get through to more women.
这些研讨会是关于如何在竞选的最后两个月成为一名有效的候选人——如何筹集资金，如何在过去两个月管理你的时间和你的人，如何回应民主党有关医疗保险和医疗补助的宣传，如何弥合性别差距，接触更多女性。
One of the pieces of advice was that Republicans tend to do very well in terms of talking about strategy and concepts and principles and data.
其中一条建议是，共和党人往往在谈论战略、概念、原则和数据方面做得很好。
And when you talk to a woman, she is more qualitative rather than quantitative.
当你和一个女人交谈时，她更多的是定性而不是定量。
And she wants to hear things about what you will do or what the party will do or what the platform is that relates to her everyday life.
她想听听有关您将做什么或聚会将做什么或与她的日常生活相关的平台是什么。
So you have to do it more anecdotal and more related to everybody's lives, which really makes a lot of sense.
所以你必须把它做得更有趣，更贴近每个人的生活，这确实很有意义。
But don't they think that one of the reasons why there's a gender gap isn't because of the way the Republicans talk about the issues, but because on the specific issues, women, as a group, don't tend to agree as often with the Republican positions?
但他们是否不认为存在性别差距的原因之一不是因为共和党人谈论问题的方式，而是因为在具体问题上，女性作为一个群体，往往不太同意共和党的立场？
To some degree.
在某种程度上。
It may be like-- my best guess is a couple, 2% or 3%.
可能是——我最好的猜测是几个，2% 或 3%。
Chuck Wojslaw has never run for public office before this.
查克·沃伊斯瓦夫在此之前从未竞选过公职。
And talking to him, you can tell.
和他交谈，你就能看出来。
He is so much more emotionally present than any normal political candidate who you meet.
他比你遇到的任何普通政治候选人都更加情绪化。
He looks you in the eye.
他看着你的眼睛。
When you ask him a question, he actually answers the question.
当你问他问题时，他实际上会回答问题。
And he has none of that robotic, not-quite-human, pod-people affect that many political candidates end up having.
他没有像许多政治候选人最终拥有的那种机器人般的、不那么人类的豆荚人的影响。
I retired a tenured professorship to run for office.
我退休了终身教授职位去竞选公职。
So I could have been secure in academia as a tenured professor.
因此，作为一名终身教授，我本可以在学术界安稳地工作。
Why are you doing this?
你为什么要这样做？
Chuck Wojslaw I love my country.
查克·沃伊斯瓦夫 我爱我的国家。
I come from a really humble background.
我的出身非常卑微。
And my country has been-- it has given me opportunity that all I had to do was take advantage of it.
我的国家给了我机会，我所要做的就是利用它。
I'm the son of a coal miner.
我是煤矿工人的儿子。
Are you somebody who's always wanted to run for office?
您是一个一直想竞选公职的人吗？
You've always toyed with it in the back of your mind?
你心里一直在玩弄它吗？
No. Ira Glass When did the idea come into your head?
不是。 Ira Glass 你什么时候想到这个想法的？
Well, I had a family meeting.
嗯，我开了一个家庭会议。
My daughter and son-- they're grown, college educated, off on their own.
我的女儿和儿子——他们已经长大，受过大学教育，独立生活。
My wife and I got together and I says to my kids, looks like I might want to take an early retirement.
我和我的妻子聚在一起，我对我的孩子们说，看来我可能想提前退休。
And so, my daughter says, why don't you run for office?
所以，我女儿说，你为什么不竞选公职呢？
And I says, you've got to be kidding.
我说，你一定是在开玩笑。
And I says, do you know what is involved with running for office?
我说，你知道竞选公职涉及什么吗？
The mudslinging and the long hours and whatever.
诽谤和长时间的工作等等。
Then, all of a sudden, my daughter came up to me and she says-- and this is what turned my mind-- she says, this is our country.
然后，突然，我的女儿走到我面前，她说——这让我改变了主意——她说，这是我们的国家。
We love it.
我们喜欢它。
If not you, who then?
如果不是你，那又是谁呢？
If not you, who then?
如果不是你，那又是谁呢？
And that's when you decided?
那就是你决定的时候？
Chuck Wojslaw Yeah.
查克·沃伊斯瓦夫 是的。
He's spending $60,000 of his retirement money to do all this.
他花费了 60,000 美元的退休金来完成这一切。
And like many people I met at the convention, what was most striking about Chuck Wojslaw was his idealism.
和我在大会上遇到的许多人一样，查克·沃伊斯瓦夫最引人注目的是他的理想主义。
He seemed completely sincere about what he was doing.
他似乎对自己所做的事情完全真诚。
We talked for a while.
我们聊了一会儿。
And later, as I was climbing off the boat, I passed him as he huddled with another reporter.
后来，当我从船上爬下来时，我从他身边经过，他正和另一位记者挤在一起。
He was talking into her tape recorder.
他正在对着她的录音机说话。
It wasn't hard to overhear.
偷听并不难。
He was telling the same story about his daughter in the same words and the same heartfelt tone.
他用同样的话语和同样衷心的语气讲述着关于他女儿的同样的故事。
You all know that I believe in a woman's right to choose and I strongly support affirmative action.
你们都知道，我相信女性的选择权，并且强烈支持平权行动。
And I was invited--
我被邀请——
Monday night, depending on where you sat in the convention hall or which network you happened to be watching, you could clearly hear a mix of boos and cheers when General Colin Powell made his big plea for inclusiveness in the Republican Party.
周一晚上，当科林·鲍威尔将军大力呼吁共和党包容时，你可以清楚地听到嘘声和欢呼声，这取决于你坐在会议厅的哪个位置，或者你碰巧正在观看哪个电视网。
It is unclear how inclusive the party really is or wants to be.
目前还不清楚该党真正的包容性或想要的包容性有多大。
One persistent and widespread rumor all week long was that gay Republicans had asked for a block of hotel rooms, for their organization the Log Cabin Republicans, and that the party told them no hotel rooms seemed to be available in San Diego or in the surrounding counties, and booked them rooms over the border in Tijuana.
整整一周持续广泛传播的谣言是，同性恋共和党人要求为他们的组织“小木屋共和党”提供一块酒店房间，而该党告诉他们圣地亚哥或周边县似乎没有酒店房间，并为他们在蒂华纳边境预订了房间。
That is, the only acceptable place for them was actually outside the borders of the United States of America.
也就是说，他们唯一可以接受的地方实际上是美利坚合众国境外。
This turned out to be false.
事实证明这是错误的。
Not true at all.
根本不是真的。
But the party's attitude about including dissenters is so confused that every time it was said, it had the sound of something that actually might be true.
但该党对于包容异见人士的态度是如此混乱，以至于每次说出来的时候，听起来都像是真的。
By midweek, everybody knew that inclusion was the word of the week.
到了周中，每个人都知道包容性是本周的关键词。
Everyone was claiming to be inclusive.
每个人都声称具有包容性。
Even if you were urging people not to yield to others' beliefs, you did it in the language of inclusion.
即使你敦促人们不要屈服于他人的信仰，你也是用包容的语言做到的。
Witness, for example, Pat Buchanan at a Texas delegation breakfast.
例如，帕特·布坎南 (Pat Buchanan) 在德克萨斯州代表团早餐会上的表现就是证明。
To give you the setting here, picture him-- here's where he's standing.
为了给你一个这里的背景，想象一下他——这就是他站的地方。
He's standing in front of a 20-foot-tall cowboy made entirely of red and black and blue balloons.
他站在一个 20 英尺高的牛仔前面，这个牛仔完全由红色、黑色和蓝色气球制成。
We're being inclusive today, Tom.
汤姆，我们今天的包容性。
Let's all be tolerant and inclusive.
让我们都宽容、包容。
Now, let me say this.
现在，让我这么说。
We do want an inclusive party, a broad party.
我们确实想要一个包容性的政党、一个广泛的政党。
And think back over the last 20 years.
回想一下过去 20 年。
When were we at our most broadest and most inclusive?
我们什么时候最广泛、最包容？
In 1980 and 1984, we stood up and we said, no pale pastels.
1980年和1984年，我们站起来说，不要使用淡粉彩。
A party can't be all things to all people.
一个聚会不可能满足所有人的所有需求。
Here's where we stand.
这就是我们的立场。
Here's what we believe.
这就是我们的信念。
We are a conservative party.
我们是保守党。
We are strong on defense, strong on life.
我们在防守上很强大，在生命上也很强大。
We will stand up to--
我们将挺身而出——
What's it mean to be a Republican, to be a conservative?
成为一名共和党人、一名保守派意味着什么？
These questions even extended to the dance floor in San Diego.
这些问题甚至延伸到了圣地亚哥的舞池。
Early in the week, one of the conservative magazines published, in a special convention issue, an article that questions the kinds of music played at Republican parties.
本周早些时候，一家保守派杂志在大会特刊上发表了一篇文章，质疑共和党播放的音乐类型。
It is, of course, amoral, pop music that does not promote family values, some of it by musicians like the Village People who live a lifestyle the Republican delegates do not approve of.
当然，这是不道德的流行音乐，不提倡家庭价值观，其中一些是由像乡村人民这样的音乐家创作的，他们的生活方式是共和党代表不赞成的。
Well, Wednesday night, the Iowa delegation ended up in a bar called Dick's Last Resort.
周三晚上，爱荷华州代表团最后来到了一家名为“迪克最后度假胜地”的酒吧。
This was late.
这已经晚了。
It's a place with bras strung up over the bar like spoils of war, a big dance floor.
这是一个胸罩像战利品一样挂在酒吧上方的地方，一个大舞池。
And when AC/DC kicked onto the sound system, a sensible-looking delegate named [?
当 AC/DC 启动音响系统时，一位看上去理智的代表名叫 [？
Laurie ?] [?
劳里？] [？
Leapholdt, ?] in a sensible skirt, sensible shoes, sensible haircut, wife of a police officer back home, wearing a sticker that said, "Life of the party"-- "life" in big, red letters-- that many of the right-to-life delegates wore.
利普霍尔特，？]穿着漂亮的裙子，漂亮的鞋子，漂亮的发型，家乡是一名警察的妻子，身上贴着一张贴纸，上面写着“派对的生活”——用红色大字写着“生活”——这是许多生命权代表所佩戴的。
Anyway, she jumped onto the stage and executed what I have to say is the most incredible display of air guitar work I have seen in my life.
不管怎样，她跳上舞台，表演了我一生中见过的最令人难以置信的空气吉他作品展示。
Literally, people were cheering.
毫不夸张地说，人们欢呼雀跃。
She hurled herself to her knees on the power chords, and she just generally rocked out.
她在强力和弦上跪倒在地，然后她就开始摇晃起来。
When I walked up to her afterwards with my tape recorder and asked where she was from, she replied very quickly, France.
后来我拿着录音机走到她面前，问她来自哪里，她很快回答说，法国。
But then admitted, no, Des Moines.
但后来承认，不，得梅因。
?] Having a ball.
？] 玩个球。
This is just the best.
这只是最好的。
I drove all the way out here in my little red convertible, top down all the way, except for when it rained over the continental divide.
我开着我的红色小敞篷车一路从上往下开到这里，除了大陆分水岭下雨的时候。
It was great.
太棒了。
This country is just beautiful and wonderful.
这个国家真是美丽又美妙。
And I know all the Republicans here are doing their best to help keep it wonderful and free.
我知道这里所有的共和党人都在尽力帮助保持它的美好和自由。
Do you think that this kind of music promotes family values?
你认为这种音乐能够弘扬家庭价值观吗？
Probably not, I guess.
我想可能不会。
I guess I don't get real excited about a lot of it.
我想我对其中的很多事情并没有真正感到兴奋。
If I find something too objectionable-- I'm singing along-- I just change the words.
如果我发现某些内容太令人反感——我会跟着唱——我就会改变歌词。
I'm morally grounded enough to know, all right, yes, that has a nice beat and I can dance to it, but I don't necessarily believe everything that it might promote.
我有足够的道德基础，知道，好吧，是的，它有一个很好的节拍，我可以跟着它跳舞，但我不一定相信它可能提倡的一切。
You know?
你知道？
In a sense, this is a nice statement of how many Republicans feel about many issues, morally grounded enough to decide for themselves what they think and not caring what their fellow Republicans think about it, unless there's some reason to care.
从某种意义上说，这是一个很好的表述，说明了有多少共和党人对许多问题的看法，他们有足够的道德基础可以自己决定自己的想法，而不关心共和党同胞的看法，除非有某种理由关心。
Coming up, someone tests the inclusiveness of the party in Act Two.
接下来，有人在第二幕中测试政党的包容性。
Act Two.
第二幕。
Dan Savage Hello, my name is Dan Savage and I am the Republican Party in my neighborhood.
丹·萨维奇（Dan Savage） 你好，我叫丹·萨维奇（Dan Savage），我是我家附近的共和党人。
I am the Republican Precinct Committee Officer, PCO, for Precinct 1846 in the 43rd District in Seattle, Washington.
我是华盛顿州西雅图第 43 区 1846 选区的共和党选区委员会官员 (PCO)。
If you have any questions about the Republican Party, our platform, or any of our candidates, feel free to give me a call.
如果您对共和党、我们的纲领或我们的任何候选人有任何疑问，请随时给我打电话。
Now I should point out here that Dan Savage is not just a Republican Precinct Committee Officer, he's also a gay sex columnist, a drag queen, and someone who agrees with none of the principles of the Republican Party.
现在我应该在这里指出，丹·萨维奇不仅是共和党选区委员会官员，他还是同性恋专栏作家、变装皇后，而且是一个不同意共和党任何原则的人。
Now you're probably wondering how a commie, pinko, drag-fag, sex advice columnist found a home in the hate-mongering, gay-bashing, neo-fascist Republican Party.
现在你可能想知道，一个共产党员、粉红女郎、变装癖、性建议专栏作家是如何在散布仇恨、打击同性恋、新法西斯主义的共和党中找到立足之地的。
Well, let me tell you something, pal-- the Republican Party is a big tent, a huge tent.
好吧，让我告诉你一件事，朋友——共和党是一个大帐篷，一个巨大的帐篷。
There were no ideological litmus tests at the Republican Party caucuses or conventions that I attended.
我参加的共和党党团会议或大会上没有意识形态的试金石。
I didn't have to produce a voter registration card, or a picture ID even, at my very first caucus-- a measure, I believe, of the respect the Republican Party has for the rights of the individual.
在我的第一次党团会议上，我什至不需要出示选民登记卡，甚至不需要出示带照片的身份证件——我相信，这是共和党尊重个人权利的措施。
I just walked through the door, signed on the dotted line-- Dan Savage certifies that he/she considers himself/herself a Republican-- and that was it.
我刚走进门，在虚线上签名——丹·萨维奇证明他/她认为自己是共和党人——就是这样。
Who knew that going over to the dark side could be so simple?
谁知道走向黑暗面会如此简单？
OK, here's the story.
好的，故事就是这样。
Back when Pat Buchanan was posting first- and second-place showings in Republican primaries this year, Dan Savage got it into his head that the only way to change a political party that he not only disagreed with but also hated and feared was to sign up and change it from the inside.
当帕特·布坎南（Pat Buchanan）今年在共和党初选中取得第一和第二名时，丹·萨维奇（Dan Savage）就想到，要改变一个他不仅不同意而且讨厌和害怕的政党，唯一的方法就是加入并从内部改变它。
So he showed up at his local Republican caucus, which in the 43rd is a small group of Republican holdovers in a big gay neighborhood.
因此，他出现在了当地的共和党核心小组中，该小组在 43 日举行，是一个大型同性恋社区中的一小群共和党保留者。
And at this point, his story took a surprising turn.
就在这时，他的故事发生了惊人的转折。
Once he arrived, he found out that because he was the only person from the little precinct that he lives in-- each caucus is divided up into a lot of little precincts-- because of that, he was automatically made a precinct committee officer and then automatically won a seat at the county Republican convention.
到达后，他发现，因为他是他所居住的小选区中唯一的人——每个党团又分为很多小选区——因此，他自动被任命为选区委员会官员，然后自动赢得了县共和党大会的席位。
Well, he wrote up the experience that he had at the caucus in the most damning partisan tone humanly possible and published it in the paper.
好吧，他用人类所能想到的最严厉的党派语气写下了他在党团会议上的经历，并将其发表在报纸上。
But, as he found out, his adventure had barely begun.
但是，正如他发现的那样，他的冒险才刚刚开始。
A couple of weeks after I'd traveled over to the dark side, Daniel Mead Smith, chairman of the 43rd Republican Party, wrote me a letter.
在我走向黑暗面几周后，第 43 届共和党主席丹尼尔·米德·史密斯给我写了一封信。
"I think you'll be surprised that the hate-mongering, gay-bashing, neo-fascist Republican Party does not exist in the 43rd," Smith wrote.
史密斯写道：“我想你会感到惊讶的是，第 43 届并不存在散布仇恨、攻击同性恋、新法西斯主义的共和党。”
"I invite you to come to one of our meetings and see for yourself." So I went to one of Smith's meetings to see for myself, the 43rd District Republican Caucus.
“我邀请你来参加我们的一次会议，亲自看看。”因此，我亲自参加了史密斯的一次会议，即第 43 区共和党核心小组会议。
I arrived at the Montlake Community Center for the 1996 43rd District Republican Caucuses at 8:00 AM.
我于上午 8:00 到达蒙特莱克社区中心，参加 1996 年第 43 区共和党党团会议。
I paid my $5, signed in, grabbed a seat, and waited for the work to begin.
我付了 5 美元，登录，找了个座位，然后等待工作开始。
We were there to elect delegates to the State Republican Convention coming up Memorial Day weekend and vote on non-binding resolutions.
我们在那里选举即将到来的阵亡将士纪念日周末举行的州共和党代表大会的代表，并对不具约束力的决议进行投票。
The caucus began with a prayer.
党团会议以祈祷开始。
We asked God to guide us in selecting delegates.
我们祈求上帝引导我们选择代表。
And then we were ready to pledge allegiance to the flag.
然后我们准备向国旗宣誓效忠。
Only trouble was, no one brought a flag.
唯一的问题是，没有人带旗帜。
I thought about suggesting we pledge allegiance to the fag-- hey that's me-- but I didn't want to be disruptive.
我想过建议我们宣誓效忠同性恋——嘿，那就是我——但我不想造成破坏。
Someone found some red, white, and blue bunting in the back room, tossed it over an easel, and we pledged allegiance to that.
有人在后面的房间里发现了一些红、白、蓝的彩旗，把它扔到画架上，我们宣誓效忠。
The easel was needed post-pledge.
质押后需要画架。
So the red, white, and blue bunting to which we had just pledged our allegiance was tossed on the floor.
于是，我们刚刚宣誓效忠的红、白、蓝彩旗就被扔在了地板上。
We had to elect delegates before we could get to the resolutions.
在达成决议之前，我们必须选举代表。
I won't bore you with the Robert's Rules of Order stuff or the impossibly convoluted process by which the 80 of us in that cramped, steeple-roofed, fluorescent-lit room elected 17 delegates to the State Republican Convention.
我不会让你厌烦罗伯特议事规则的内容，也不会让我们 80 个人在那个狭窄、尖顶、荧光灯照明的房间里选出 17 名州共和党代表大会代表的复杂过程。
Suffice to say, it was crushingly dull.
可以说，这是极其沉闷的。
To entertain us while we waited for the ballots to be counted four times, Republican Party activists and candidates gave little speeches.
在我们等待四次计票的同时，为了娱乐我们，共和党活动人士和候选人很少发表演讲。
Some of these speeches were pure fantasy.
其中一些演讲纯粹是幻想。
One woman read a prepared speech about the United Nations working in concert with abortionists to take over the country.
一名妇女宣读了一份事先准备好的演讲，内容是联合国与堕胎者合作接管该国。
The other recurring fantasy had to do with us, the 43rd District Republicans, retaking the 43rd for the Republican Party.
另一个反复出现的幻想与我们，第 43 区共和党人，为共和党夺回第 43 区有关。
One man reminisced about the time, not too long ago, when the 43rd was a solidly Republican district.
一名男子回忆起不久前的那段时光，当时第 43 区还是一个坚定的共和党选区。
"We can make this district Republican again, just like it was when I joined the party 25 years ago.
“我们可以让这个选区再次成为共和党人，就像 25 年前我入党时一样。
All we have to do is get out there and doorbell and identify the voters in this district who are sympathetic to our issues."
我们所要做的就是出去按门，找出该选区同情我们问题的选民。”
Heart pounding, I stuck my hand in the air.
我的心猛烈地跳动，我把手举在空中。
"Have any of you been out of the house or walked down Broadway in the last 25 years?" I asked, standing and looking around at the toughest crowd I've probably ever played.
“过去 25 年里，你们中有人走出过家门，或者走过百老汇吗？”我一边问道，一边站着，环视着我可能打过的最难对付的人群。
The 43rd District, I pointed out, had gone all gay all of a sudden.
我指出，第 43 区突然变得同性恋了。
So long as the Republican Party was identified with homophobes and anti-gay, bigot activists, the Republican Party could kiss the 43rd District goodbye.
只要共和党被视为仇视同性恋者和反同性恋、偏执的积极分子，共和党就可以与第 43 选区吻别。
When I sat down, a little old lady sitting behind me pointed out that she knew a very nice gay couple in the Republican Party.
当我坐下时，坐在我后面的一位小老太太指出，她在共和党里认识一对非常好的同性恋夫妇。
In other words, she, and by extension the party, was not homophobic.
换句话说，她以及整个政党并不仇视同性恋。
And I was wrong.
我错了。
She said to me, "The party isn't against gay people.
她对我说：“该党并不反对同性恋者。
That's just a false impression you have." Gee, I wonder where I could have picked up that false impression?
那只是你的错觉。”哎呀，我想知道我从哪里得到了这种错误的印象？
Maybe from Jesse Helms, Bob Dornan, Bob "$1,000" Dole, anti-gay rights rallies in Iowa during the primaries attended by all the Republican presidential hopefuls-- even moderate Lamar Alexander-- Pat Robertson, Ralph Reed, Newt Gingrich, Linda Smith, Ellen Craswell, Spokane County Coroner Dexter Amend, the Washington State Legislature, state legislatures all across the country, the Christian Coalition.
也许来自杰西·赫尔姆斯、鲍勃·多南、鲍勃·“1000美元”·多尔、爱荷华州初选期间举行的反同性恋权利集会，所有共和党总统候选人——甚至包括温和派拉马尔·亚历山大——帕特·罗伯逊、拉尔夫·里德、纽特·金里奇、琳达·史密斯、艾伦·克拉斯韦尔、斯波坎县验尸官德克斯特修正案、华盛顿州立法机构、全美各地的州立法机构都参加了这次集会。国家，基督教联盟。
During a break, an attractive middle-aged man approached me.
休息时，一位英俊的中年男子向我走来。
He was a little angry.
他有点生气。
"I was offended by you forcing me to take responsibility for Jesse Helms." As if the Republican Party isn't responsible for Jesse Helms.
“你强迫我为杰西·赫尔姆斯承担责任，这让我很生气。”好像共和党不对杰西·赫尔姆斯负责。
One woman wanted to know why she should support gay people since gay people didn't support her when her home was burned down by arsonists.
一名妇女想知道为什么她应该支持同性恋者，因为当她的家被纵火犯烧毁时，同性恋者并不支持她。
The arsonists weren't gay or anything.
纵火犯不是同性恋或其他任何人。
But where were gay people when she needed them?
但当她需要同性恋者时，他们在哪里呢？
Another pointed out that some gays had broken the windows of the Republican Party headquarters, so who's oppressing who?
还有人指出，一些同性恋者打破了共和党总部的窗户，到底是谁在压迫谁？
Another man took me aside during a break to let me know that the gay bashing within the Republican Party wasn't for real.
休息时，另一个男人把我拉到一边，让我知道共和党内部的同性恋攻击并不是真的。
It was only to get out the vote and motivate the front lines.
只是为了拉票，激励前线。
Well, then, I guess that makes it OK.
那么，我想这样就可以了。
I'm happy to be vilified and scapegoated and denied my civil rights, so long as it motivates people to go to the polls.
我很高兴被诽谤、成为替罪羊并被剥夺公民权利，只要它能激励人们去投票。
Disenfranchisement is a small price to pay to increase voter turnout.
剥夺选举权是提高选民投票率所付出的一个很小的代价。
To his surprise, at this meeting, Dan Savage talked the caucus into approving a resolution that affirmed the rights of gays and lesbians and rejected elements of the party who would exploit fear and hatred of homosexuals for short-term political gain.
令他惊讶的是，在这次会议上，丹·萨维奇说服核心小组批准一项决议，该决议肯定了同性恋者的权利，并拒绝了党内利用对同性恋者的恐惧和仇恨来获取短期政治利益的人。
He could not wait, after this victory, to get to the county convention.
这场胜利之后，他迫不及待地想要参加县代表大会。
As an official delegate, Dan Savage would be allowed to vote there.
作为官方代表，丹·萨维奇将被允许在那里投票。
He'd be allowed to make amendments.
他将被允许做出修改。
He would really be allowed to play a role.
他真的会被允许发挥作用。
He planned to vote, in the straw polls they have at these things, for the most conservative Republican candidates-- in this case, Pat Buchanan for president.
他计划在这些事情上进行的民意调查中投票给最保守的共和党候选人——在这种情况下，帕特·布坎南竞选总统。
And for the governor of Washington State, he was going to vote for Ellen Craswell, who opposes gun control, and gay rights, and moral decay, and who he loathes.
对于华盛顿州州长，他将投票给艾伦·克拉斯韦尔（Ellen Craswell），她反对枪支管制、同性恋权利和道德败坏，也是他所厌恶的人。
Dan Savage's thinking was that the more extreme the Republican ticket would end up being, the more likely they would lose in the general election, and the more likely that the party would eventually abandon this more conservative wing.
丹·萨维奇（Dan Savage）的想法是，共和党选票最终越极端，他们在大选中失败的可能性就越大，该党最终放弃这个更为保守的派系的可能性也越大。
A few weeks later, the big day arrived.
几周后，重要的一天到来了。
The King County Republican Convention, my first major party function-- hats, speeches, amendments.
金县共和党代表大会，我的第一个主要政党活动——帽子、演讲、修正案。
I bounded out of bed at 7:00 AM, and ran to meet my new friend, Steve, at the QFC on Broadway.
早上 7:00，我从床上跳起来，跑到百老汇的 QFC 去见我的新朋友史蒂夫。
Steve attended his precinct caucuses way back in March with the intention of getting himself elected a delegate to the county and state Republican conventions.
史蒂夫早在三月份就参加了他的选区党团会议，目的是让自己当选为县和州共和党大会的代表。
Like me, he joined the Republican Party out of a sincere desire to move the GOP to the center.
和我一样，他加入共和党是出于将共和党推向中间的真诚愿望。
Kindred spirits, we decided to attend the county convention together.
志同道合的我们决定一起参加县大会。
The doors opened at 7:30 AM.
早上 7:30 开门。
After the crowd settled down, a preacher read an alarming opening invocation which pretty much set the tone for what was to come.
人群安静下来后，一位传教士宣读了一段令人震惊的开场祷文，这几乎为接下来的事情定下了基调。
"Please forgive our leaders for endorsing perversion.
“请原谅我们的领导人支持变态。
And God, deliver us from spineless compromise." Then we bellowed the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.
上帝，请让我们摆脱毫无骨气的妥协。”然后我们向美利坚合众国国旗宣誓效忠。
I slipped up to the merchandise tables on the second floor where I bought myself a red, white, and blue "Craswell for Governor" hat.
我溜到二楼的商品柜台前，给自己买了一顶红、白、蓝相间的“州长克拉斯韦尔”帽子。
It must have been fate.
这一定是命运。
On my way back down from the merchandise tables, I ran smack dab into Ellen Craswell herself.
在我从商品台走下来的路上，我撞见了艾伦·克拉斯韦尔本人。
I said hello, and looking very serious in my little red, white, and blue hat asked, "What are we going to do about the homosexual problem, Miss Craswell?
我打了个招呼，戴着红白蓝小帽子，表情严肃地问道：“克拉斯韦尔小姐，我们要对同性恋问题采取什么措施？
What is the final solution to all this homosexual nonsense?"
所有这些同性恋废话的最终解决方案是什么？”
"So long as they stay inside, we can let them alone," Ellen Craswell confided in me.
“只要他们呆在里面，我们就可以放过他们，”艾伦·克拉斯韦尔向我吐露心声。
"But when they organize and demand special rights, we must oppose them.
“但是当他们组织起来并要求特殊权利时，我们必须反对他们。
We can't give special rights to something that is an abomination in the eyes of God."
我们不能给予上帝眼中可憎之物特殊的权利。”
Now, Ellen didn't seem interested in elaborating on just what it is we're supposed to stay inside of-- the closet, our apartments, the priesthood.
现在，艾伦似乎没有兴趣详细说明我们应该待在里面的东西——壁橱、我们的公寓、神职人员。
So I said goodbye, promising to vote for her in the primary.
所以我告别了，并承诺在初选时投票给她。
You see, the better Ellen does in the primary, the better the Democratic candidate for governor will do in the fall.
你看，艾伦在初选中表现越好，民主党州长候选人在秋季的表现就越好。
I made it back to the convention floor just in time for the opening of debate on the party platform.
我回到会议厅，正好赶上党纲辩论开始。
The King County Republican Platform is a document drawn up by committee that lays out what the King County Republican Party stands for.
金县共和党纲领是委员会起草的一份文件，阐述了金县共和党的主张。
And here's the beautiful part-- delegates are allowed to propose amendments.
这是最美妙的部分——代表们可以提出修正案。
Once an amendment is proposed, the amendment's sponsor is allowed to speak, followed by a few people in favor, a few opposed.
一旦提出修正案，修正案的提案者就可以发言，然后是少数人赞成，少数人反对。
After that, the sponsor gets another minute or so to address the floor.
之后，发起人还有一分钟左右的时间发言。
I was a delegate.
我是代表。
I had amendments.
我有修改。
And so I would get to address the convention over and over and over again.
所以我会一遍又一遍地在大会上发言。
And as amendments are time-consuming, determined delegates can grind the convention to a halt.
由于修正案非常耗时，意志坚定的代表们可能会迫使大会陷入停顿。
The first section we were to vote on was the preamble, in which we acknowledged God to be our creator and the family as the foundation of our culture.
我们要投票的第一部分是序言，其中我们承认上帝是我们的创造者，家庭是我们文化的基础。
We embraced free markets, recognized that tax and regulatory burdens are a threat to our freedoms, yadda, yadda, yadda.
我们拥抱自由市场，认识到税收和监管负担对我们的自由构成威胁，耶达，耶达，耶达。
Before we could vote on the preamble-- and it hadn't occurred to me to amend the preamble-- a delegate proposed that a line be added stating that the party was open to all who accept its basic principles, regardless of race, religion, sex, or national origin.
在我们对序言进行投票之前（我没有想到要修改序言），一位代表提议添加一行，表明该党向所有接受其基本原则的人开放，无论种族、宗教、性别或国籍。
After debate, the first resolution of the day passed by a distressingly narrow margin.
经过辩论，当天的第一项决议以令人痛苦的微弱优势通过。
Race, creed, sex, national origin-- something was missing.
种族、信仰、性别、国籍——有些东西缺失了。
Steve approached the microphone and proposed that the just-passed amendment also be amended to include the words "sexual orientation." Well, Steve's amendment was soundly defeated by a voice vote that, though untabulated, sounded to me like 1,589 to 11.
史蒂夫走近麦克风，提议对刚刚通过的修正案也进行修改，加入“性取向”一词。好吧，史蒂夫的修正案被口头投票彻底否决了，虽然没有列出表格，但对我来说，声音投票结果是 1,589 票对 11 票。
Then the liberty section was up for a vote.
然后自由部分进行投票。
I dashed to a microphone wearing my Ellen Craswell hat and proposed this amendment.
我戴着艾伦·克拉斯韦尔的帽子冲向麦克风，提出了这项修正案。
"As respect for the rights of the individual are the bedrock of Republican values, the King County Republican Party hereby recognizes the fundamental human rights of gay and lesbian American citizens.
“尊重个人权利是共和党价值观的基石，金县共和党特此承认美国同性恋公民的基本人权。
We reject elements on the fringe of the Republican Party that would exploit fear and hatred of gay and lesbian American citizens for short-term political gain."
我们反对共和党边缘人士利用美国男女同性恋公民的恐惧和仇恨来获取短期政治利益。”
Through the shouting, I pointed out that we King County Republicans can't have it both ways.
通过喊叫，我指出我们金县共和党人不能两全其美。
We can't say in one breath that we oppose discrimination and with our next breath, support discrimination against gay and lesbian American citizens.
我们不能一口气说我们反对歧视，下一口气就支持对美国同性恋公民的歧视。
So let's vote on it.
那么让我们来投票吧。
Do we, the Republicans of King County, recognize the fundamental rights of gay and lesbian American citizens, or do we not?
我们金县的共和党人是否承认美国同性恋公民的基本权利？
Well, we do not.
好吧，我们不这样做。
After some heated debate-- the names I was called-- pervert, sodomite, Democrat-- my amendment was voted down.
经过一番激烈的辩论——人们对我的称呼——变态者、鸡奸者、民主党人——我的修正案被否决了。
After my amendment failed, a woman in a Craswell hat approached me.
在我的修正案失败后，一位戴着克拉斯韦尔帽子的女士走近我。
"Why are you wearing that hat?" she briskly inquired.
“你为什么戴那顶帽子？”她轻快地问道。
"You know where she stands on gay things, don't you?" Having recently had a conversation with Ellen herself, I most certainly did.
“你知道她在同性恋问题上的立场，不是吗？”最近与艾伦本人进行了交谈，我肯定是这么做的。
"But I'm not," I smilingly inform my new friend and fellow Craswell supporter, "a single-issue voter."
“但我不是，”我微笑着告诉我的新朋友和克拉斯韦尔的支持者，“一个单一问题的选民。”
Try to imagine now that you're a homophobic, Republican jerk-off-- which might be a triple redundancy-- at your county convention.
现在试着想象一下，在你的县大会上，你是一个仇视同性恋的共和党混蛋——这可能是三重冗余。
You came for the speeches, an anti-Clinton T-shirt for your collection, and a hot dog.
你来参加演讲、收藏一件反克林顿 T 恤和一个热狗。
This is what you do for fun.
这就是你为了好玩而做的事情。
Woohoo.
呜呼。
But these three guys keep introducing pro-gay-rights amendments, moving to have anti-gay amendments struck, and generally messing with your afternoon.
但这三个人不断提出支持同性恋权利的修正案，并提出反同性恋修正案，通常会扰乱你的下午。
You didn't come to the convention to defend your party's homophobia.
你来参加大会并不是为了捍卫你所在政党的同性恋恐惧症。
And you certainly didn't come expecting to listen to gay men giving speeches all day long.
你肯定没想到会整天听男同性恋者发表演讲。
Who are these guys?
这些人是谁？
And why is that one wearing a Craswell hat?
为什么那个人戴着克拉斯韦尔帽子？
OK, you're this person.
好吧，你就是这个人。
What do you do?
你做什么工作？
You get mad-- very, very mad.
你会生气——非常非常生气。
One delegate decided to get even.
一名代表决定报复。
In what can only be described as a David Lynch moment, a palsied delegate staggered up to the microphone and proposed a change in the rules.
在只能被描述为大卫·林奇时刻的时刻，一位瘫痪的代表摇摇晃晃地走到麦克风前，提议修改规则。
No further discussion of homosexuality allowed.
不允许进一步讨论同性恋。
His resolution needed a 2/3 majority to pass because it was a rules change, not a simple amendment.
他的决议需要 2/3 多数才能通过，因为这是规则的改变，而不是简单的修正案。
And pass it did, to hoots and hollers and cheers.
比赛确实通过了，伴随着欢呼声、叫喊声和欢呼声。
But we had yet to vote on the education section, which contained a plank about homosexuality.
但我们还没有对教育部分进行投票，其中包含有关同性恋的内容。
When we got to education, all hell broke loose.
当我们进入教育领域时，一切都乱了套。
Robert's Rules of Order fetishists leapt to their feet insisting that the anti-gay plank in the Education section would have to be struck.
罗伯特的秩序规则崇拜者跳了起来，坚持认为教育部分的反同性恋木板必须被拆除。
If we can't discuss homosexuality, we can't vote on it, for voting is a discussion.
如果我们不能讨论同性恋，我们就不能对其进行投票，因为投票就是一种讨论。
Uh-oh, we were talking about homosexuality again.
呃哦，我们又在谈论同性恋了。
People were booing, shouting.
人们发出嘘声、叫喊声。
Oh, the humanity.
哦，人性。
The chair, bringing the room to order, calmly ruled that the no-further-discussion resolution applied only to pro-gay discussions.
主席让会议室恢复秩序，平静地裁定，不再进行进一步讨论的决议仅适用于支持同性恋的讨论。
We could discuss homosexuality, he said, but only if we weren't saying anything nice about it.
他说，我们可以讨论同性恋，但前提是我们不能说任何好话。
And the convention limped to a close, most of the day having been wasted debating gay rights, gay marriage, what makes people gay, and my hat.
大会一瘸一拐地结束了，一天的大部分时间都浪费在讨论同性恋权利、同性婚姻、什么使人们成为同性恋以及我的帽子上。
What I learned.
我学到了什么。
Here's what I learned about Republicans that weekend.
这是我那个周末对共和党的了解。
They don't like homos very much.
他们不太喜欢同性恋。
They certainly don't like having to talk about us.
他们当然不喜欢谈论我们。
And they certainly like listening to us even less.
他们当然更不喜欢听我们说话。
But they do like beating up on us in their platforms.
但他们确实喜欢在他们的平台上殴打我们。
So King County Republicans, I'll make you a deal.
金县共和党人，我将与你们达成协议。
Leave us out of your platform in '98-- the next convention cycle-- and I'll stay away from your convention.
如果我们在 98 年——下一个大会周期——离开你们的平台，我就会远离你们的大会。
But if we're in the platform, I intend to return.
但如果我们在平台上，我打算回来。
Dan Savage writes a syndicated sex advice column called "Savage Love." He's a writer and editor at a weekly Seattle paper called The Stranger.
丹·萨维奇 (Dan Savage) 撰写了名为“野蛮之爱”的联合性建议专栏。他是西雅图一家名为《陌生人》周刊的作家和编辑。
Coming up, Michael Lewis and more unusual stories of Republican Party politics.
接下来，迈克尔·刘易斯和更多关于共和党政治的不寻常故事。
That's in a minute, when our program continues.
一会儿之后，我们的节目就会继续。
It's This American Life .
这就是美国生活。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
Each week on our program, of course, we choose a theme, bring you a variety of writers and stories and storytelling styles.
当然，我们每周的节目都会选择一个主题，为您带来各种作家、故事和讲故事的风格。
Our program today is about the Republican Convention.
我们今天的节目是关于共和党全国代表大会的。
Act Three, Campaign Diaries.
第三幕，竞选日记。
Throughout this year, we've been bringing you the reportage of Michael Lewis.
今年，我们一直为您带来迈克尔·刘易斯的报道文学。
He's publishing his campaign diaries in The New Republic .
他正在《新共和》上发表他的竞选日记。
And I say this pretty much every time we have him on the show.
每次我们让他出现在节目中我都会这么说。
He's writing about corners of the election process that nobody else is.
他正在写关于选举过程中其他人没有的角落。
He just has this eye, also, for the telling, revealing little moment and detail.
他也有一双善于讲述、揭示小时刻和细节的眼睛。
Regular listeners to our program or regular readers of his know that at some point during this election year, Michael Lewis became mesmerized with a presidential candidate by the name of Morry Taylor.
我们节目的常客或他的常客都知道，在这个选举年的某个时刻，迈克尔·刘易斯迷上了一位名叫莫里·泰勒的总统候选人。
Morry Taylor ran in the Republican primaries.
莫里·泰勒参加了共和党初选。
He shows up in this installment you're about to hear.
他将出现在您即将听到的这一期节目中。
He is outspoken.
他很直言不讳。
And he is the founder and CEO of Titan Tire and Wheel.
他是泰坦轮胎和车轮公司的创始人兼首席执行官。
And he goes by the nickname the Grizz.
他的绰号是“灰熊”。
For these campaign diaries, Michael Lewis not only attended the Republican National Convention, he also flew to Russell, Kansas, Bob Dole's boyhood home.
为了写这些竞选日记，迈克尔·刘易斯不仅出席了共和党全国代表大会，他还飞往堪萨斯州拉塞尔，鲍勃·多尔儿时的家。
August 7-- I don't really expect anyone to answer the door of Bob Dole's house in Russell, Kansas.
8 月 7 日——我真的不希望有人去开门鲍勃·多尔 (Bob Dole) 位于堪萨斯州拉塞尔的家的门。
But I stop by anyway, just to see what might happen.
但我还是停下来，看看会发生什么。
When you travel with Dole, you see the world as it is constructed by the Dole campaign, until you almost forget there is a world outside of it, where people do the unexpected.
当您与都乐一起旅行时，您会看到由都乐活动构建的世界，直到您几乎忘记世界之外还有一个世界，那里的人们会做出意想不到的事情。
Indeed, as I reach for the screen door, I half wonder if some SWAT team will leap out of the bushes and haul me back to Bob Dole's campaign plane, Citizenship , for questioning.
事实上，当我把手伸向纱门时，我有点想知道是否会有特警队从灌木丛中跳出来，把我拖回鲍勃·多尔的竞选飞机“公民号”上接受审问。
But Dole is a few days behind me.
但多尔比我晚了几天。
And the neighborhood remains undisturbed by politics.
而且这个社区仍然没有受到政治的干扰。
The only sign that I'm in the right place is the faded pink mat beneath my feet.
唯一表明我来对地方的标志是我脚下褪色的粉红色垫子。
"Welcome to the home of the Doles," it reads.
“欢迎来到多尔一家的家，”上面写着。
After a single ring, the front door swings open and an elderly woman steps outside.
一声铃声后，前门打开，一位老妇人走了出来。
"Just cleaning up before Bob gets here," she says.
“在鲍勃来这里之前清理一下，”她说。
It's Bob Dole's sister, Gloria, and she's as matter-of-fact as Dole himself.
这是鲍勃·多尔的妹妹格洛丽亚，她和多尔本人一样务实。
She then disappears inside, leaving the door open for me to follow.
然后她消失在里面，留下门开着让我跟着。
I do.
我愿意。
Bob Dole's boyhood home-- his official residence, in fact-- is instantly recognizable to anyone who had grandparents in the 1960s.
鲍勃·多尔 (Bob Dole) 儿时的家——事实上，他的官邸——对于 20 世纪 60 年代有祖父母的人来说，一眼就能认出来。
1960s old-person's furniture, low-backed lounge chairs; 1960s old-person colors, unnatural shades of green; and 1960s old-person smells, 1940s perfume.
20世纪60年代老人家具、低背躺椅； 20世纪60年代的老人色彩，不自然的绿色；以及 20 世纪 60 年代的老人气味、20 世纪 40 年代的香水。
Over the roar of the 1960s vacuum cleaner, Gloria opens various drawers and tosses onto various counters items for me to inspect.
在 20 世纪 60 年代吸尘器的轰鸣声中，格洛丽亚打开各个抽屉，把物品扔到柜台上的各个地方供我检查。
The drawers contain hundreds of loose photographs of Dole in his youth that neither Gloria nor anyone else has looked at in years.
抽屉里有数百张多尔年轻时的松散照片，格洛丽亚和其他人多年来都没有看过这些照片。
One shot depicts Dole modeling clothes in a fashion show staged by a local department store.
其中一张照片描绘了多尔在当地一家百货公司举办的时装秀上模特服装。
Another shows him shirtless, with his muscles slightly flexed.
另一张照片显示他赤裸上身，肌肉微微弯曲。
As a collection, they capture both Dole's natural obedience-- he always poses-- and his intense physical vanity.
作为一个系列，它们捕捉到了多尔的自然服从（他总是摆出姿势）和他强烈的身体虚荣心。
How many 18-year-olds in 1940 lifted weights?
1940 年有多少 18 岁青少年举重？
"He looks like a movie star," I say to Gloria.
“他看起来像个电影明星，”我对格洛丽亚说。
"He was a movie star," she says quickly.
“他是一位电影明星，”她很快说道。
"He is a movie star."
“他是一位电影明星。”
The whole thing happened so fast, it seems only natural that I'm ransacking the home of the Republican presidential nominee.
整件事发生得太快了，我搜查共和党总统候选人的家似乎是很自然的事。
After a thorough search of the premises, we move on to the garage, passing, beside Dole's bed, a strange pair of Little Black Sambo rag dolls of the sort they don't even allow in the South anymore.
彻底搜查了整个房间后，我们前往车库，在多尔的床边经过了一对奇怪的小黑桑博布娃娃，这种娃娃在南方甚至不再允许使用。
The inside of the garage is a welter of ancient possessions that have long since ceased to serve any useful purpose-- five-pound cameras, medicine balls, that sort of thing.
车库里堆满了古老的物品，它们早已不再有任何有用的用途——五磅重的相机、实心球之类的东西。
The outside is equally unremarkable, save for the jury-rigged system of sausage-shaped weights that Dole used to rebuild his arm after the war.
除了战后多尔用来重建手臂的临时装配的香肠状重物系统外，外部同样不起眼。
According to Gloria, the contraption has simply hung there for the past 50 years, untouched by time or fate.
根据格洛丽亚的说法，这个装置在过去 50 年里一直挂在那里，没有受到时间或命运的影响。
Dole just likes having it around.
Dole 就是喜欢有它在身边。
As I watch the white rope spool through the eye of the silver pulley, I realize I am also watching Bob Dole's campaign in microcosm.
当我通过银色滑轮的眼睛观察白色绳索时，我意识到我也在观看鲍勃·多尔的竞选活动的缩影。
Somewhere in America, Dole is either giving a speech or preparing to give a speech in which he invokes the place where I now stand and the things he once did here.
在美国的某个地方，多尔要么正在发表演讲，要么准备发表演讲，他在演讲中提到了我现在站的地方以及他曾经在这里做过的事情。
"Now let's just take Bob Dole," he'll say, typically.
“现在让我们以鲍勃·多尔为例，”他通常会说。
"Nothing special about me.
“我没什么特别的。
Grew up in a small town.
在一个小镇长大。
Dad wears overalls to work every day for 42 years, was proud of it.
爸爸42年来每天都穿着工作服上班，为此感到自豪。
Grew up in a basement apartment, six of us, to make ends meet, in Russell, Kansas.
我们六个人在堪萨斯州拉塞尔的一间地下室公寓里长大，为了维持生计。
Didn't have any money, but we had lots of values." Then he will allude artfully to his war wound and his heroic recovery from it.
我们没有钱，但我们有很多价值观。”然后他会巧妙地提及他的战争创伤以及他从战争中所受的英勇康复。
The insistence on the importance of events that have occurred 50 years ago in a place where he hasn't lived for 35 years is more than a little strange.
在他已经居住了 35 年的地方，他坚持认为 50 年前发生的事件很重要，这有点奇怪。
It's as if Dole has made a bargain with himself, and with those who would judge him, which enables him to cease all serious self-examination after the age of 25.
就好像多尔与自己以及那些评判他的人做了一笔交易，这使他能够在25岁之后停止所有严肃的自我审视。
The deal is something like this.
这笔交易是这样的。
Dole agrees to believe that it was worth it to have his arm and his vanity shattered for the sake of his country.
多尔同意相信，为了他的国家，他的手臂和他的虚荣心被粉碎是值得的。
In return, the country agrees not to question what lurks inside him.
作为回报，该国同意不质疑他内心深处潜藏的东西。
Thanks to a single decision he made 50 years ago, he is forever the war hero.
由于他 50 年前做出的一个决定，他永远是战争英雄。
It's a strangely stunted view of 73 years on the planet.
这是地球上 73 年的奇怪的发育不良景象。
Morry Taylor asks me to meet him in the parking lot by the San Diego Convention Center.
莫里·泰勒邀请我在圣地亚哥会议中心旁的停车场与他见面。
But the convention center is closed and the police who surround it have no idea where to find the parking lot.
但会议中心已经关闭，周围的警察不知道在哪里可以找到停车场。
After a half-hour search, I ask a cop if he's seen 5,000 people on Harley-Davidson motorcycles-- the number Morry promised to deliver to the Dole campaign.
经过半小时的搜寻，我问一名警察是否看到 5,000 人骑着哈雷戴维森摩托车——莫里承诺向多尔竞选活动提供的人数。
The police officer looks at me as if I am mad.
警察看着我，好像我生气了。
"How many?" he asks incredulously.
“多少？”他难以置信地问道。
"5,000," I say.
“5,000，”我说。
"There is no way you get 5,000 motorcycles anywhere near here," he says.
“在这附近不可能有 5,000 辆摩托车，”他说。
For the first time since I met him seven months ago, I doubt Morry's ability to throw a party.
自从七个月前见到他以来，我第一次怀疑莫里举办派对的能力。
How do you find 5,000 bikers anyway?
无论如何，你如何找到 5,000 名骑自行车的人？
Soon enough, I find the parking lot.
很快，我就找到了停车场。
It lies directly behind a small cluster of protesters, a half mile or so from the convention center.
它位于一小群抗议者的正后方，距离会议中心约半英里。
It consists of maybe four acres of concrete at the back of which is a stage.
它由大约四英亩的混凝土组成，后面是一个舞台。
Over the stage is an American flag.
舞台上方是一面美国国旗。
And in front of the flag is a huge banner.
而旗帜的前面，则是一面巨大的横幅。
It reads, "Titan-- America's Newest Tire Company." That's Morry's company.
上面写着：“泰坦——美国最新的轮胎公司。”那是莫里的公司。
On the stage are five large black men playing loud instruments, each of whom wears a bandanna that says, "The Grizz." That's Morry.
舞台上有五个身材高大的黑人，正在演奏响亮的乐器，每个人都戴着一条大手帕，上面写着“灰熊”。那是莫里。
At the front of the stage, with a cigar jutting straight out from his mouth, gyrating slightly to the funk, is Morry.
站在舞台最前面的是莫里，他嘴里笔直地伸出一支雪茄，微微旋转着，直至恐惧。
The roar of approaching motorcycles soon drowns out everything.
摩托车驶近的轰鸣声很快淹没了一切。
Not 5,000, but 7,000 motorcycles are streaming across a bridge.
不是 5,000 辆，而是 7,000 辆摩托车涌过一座桥。
They are ridden by 7,000 Republicans and led by half the United States Congress and various local bigwigs-- Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott, Ben Nighthorse Campbell and Dick Armey.
他们由 7,000 名共和党人领导，由一半的美国国会议员和各种当地大人物领导——纽特·金里奇和特伦特·洛特、本·奈特霍斯·坎贝尔和迪克·阿米。
But from the moment the bikers arrive at the gates, the Dole campaign ensures that pretty much everything goes wrong.
但从骑自行车的人到达门口的那一刻起，都乐的活动就确保几乎所有事情都会出错。
Dole's promise to attend causes the police to keep 6,800 bikers out on the highway.
多尔承诺出席，导致警方将 6,800 名骑自行车的人拒之门外。
Letting them in will prove too much of a security risk, they say.
他们说，让他们进来会带来太大的安全风险。
The thick line dutifully comes to a halt.
粗线尽职尽责地停了下来。
And the bikers wait restlessly.
骑自行车的人焦急地等待着。
The Dole campaign goes back and forth until everyone involved is thoroughly unhappy.
都乐的活动反复进行，直到所有参与者都彻底不满意为止。
An hour or so later, the Dole campaign finally admits that Dole won't be coming.
大约一个小时后，多尔竞选团队终于承认多尔不会来。
The effect is immediate.
效果立竿见影。
The senators and congressmen vanish.
参议员和国会议员消失了。
As the politicians exit out the back gate, the 3,000 or so bikers who remain on the highway enter through the front.
当政客们从后门退出时，留在高速公路上的大约 3,000 名骑自行车的人则从前门进入。
Morry claims that most of the bikers are actually doctors and lawyers.
莫里声称大多数骑自行车的人实际上是医生和律师。
But these are doctors and lawyers with wild, big bellies and long facial hair.
但这些都是医生和律师，有着狂野的大肚子和长长的胡须。
To a man, they are covered in patches that identify them as ardent champions of the American way.
对于一个男人来说，他们身上布满补丁，表明他们是美国方式的热心拥护者。
Their most popular cause, by far, is the Vietnam War.
到目前为止，他们最受欢迎的原因是越南战争。
Everyone is either a veteran or a friend of a veteran.
每个人要么是退伍军人，要么是退伍军人的朋友。
"Hanoi Jane-- traitor by choice, commie by injection," reads a typical armband.
一个典型的臂章上写着：“河内简——选择的叛徒，注射的共产主义者。”
The event quickly degenerates into an enjoyable experience.
这个活动很快就变成了一次愉快的经历。
The glee on Morry's face as the bikers-- he's already calling them "my bikers"-- roar into the lot calls to mind a small child on Christmas morning.
当骑车人——他已经称他们为“我的骑车人”——冲进停车场时，莫里脸上的喜悦让人想起圣诞节早晨的一个小孩子。
The bikers, for their part, seem thrilled, especially when Morry moonwalks across the stage and hurls Grizz T-shirts into the raucous crowd.
就摩托车手们而言，他们似乎很兴奋，尤其是当莫里在舞台上太空步并向喧闹的人群扔灰熊队 T 恤时。
As he does, the band strikes up a new song, "It's your thing, do what you gotta to.
当他这样做时，乐队演奏了一首新歌：“这是你的事，做你必须做的事。
I can't tell you what not to do."
我无法告诉你什么不该做。”
Five hours later, I sit behind Ollie North's family watching Pat Buchanan take the stage at a rally in Escondido.
五小时后，我坐在奥利·诺斯（Ollie North）家人后面，观看帕特·布坎南（Pat Buchanan）在埃斯孔迪多的一次集会上登台。
Buchanan is going to remain inside the Republican Party.
布坎南将继续留在共和党内。
That much we know from the advance copies of the speech distributed by his staff.
我们从他的工作人员分发的演讲预稿中了解到了这一点。
What we don't know is how his followers will take the news.
我们不知道他的追随者将如何看待这个消息。
One moment at the start of the ceremony speaks volumes about what Buchanan's followers are up to, as opposed to what Buchanan claims he's up to.
仪式开始时的一个时刻充分说明了布坎南的追随者在做什么，而不是布坎南声称他在做什么。
After the Pledge of Allegiance, a claque at the back of the room tacks on a pro-life appendix.
宣誓效忠后，房间后面的一群人在附上反堕胎的附录。
"Born and unborn," they shout.
“出生和未出生，”他们喊道。
When I express astonishment that they have dared to amend the Pledge of Allegiance, a fellow journalist gives me a where-have-you-been look and explains that they've also rewritten "The Star-Spangled Banner" to incorporate some pro-life language.
当我对他们竟然敢修改效忠誓词表示惊讶时，一位记者同事用“你去哪儿了”的眼神看着我，并解释说他们还重写了《星条旗永不落》，加入了一些反堕胎的语言。
Nothing illustrates so well how anti-conservative Buchanan's movement truly is.
没有什么比这更能说明布坎南的运动到底有多么反保守了。
Its goal is not to conserve the past but to advance a radical agenda.
它的目标不是保存过去，而是推进激进的议程。
The constant invocation of the past-- the founding fathers, the declaration, et cetera, is more of a smokescreen than anything else.
对过去的不断援引——开国元勋、宣言等等，更像是烟幕弹。
Given this, it will be difficult to yoke these people to an old-fashioned conservative cause like the Dole campaign.
鉴于此，很难将这些人束缚在像多尔竞选这样的老式保守主义事业上。
It's like trying to transform a lightning bolt into usable current.
这就像试图将闪电转化为可用电流。
That's Dole's real problem here.
这才是都乐真正的问题所在。
Temperamentally, he's a conservative.
从性格上来说，他是一个保守派。
Every fiber in his body is intent on denying anything radical from ever again changing his life.
他体内的每一根纤维都致力于否认任何激进的事情再次改变他的生活。
By late afternoon I finally find Morry again, wandering the convention floor.
下午晚些时候，我终于再次找到莫里，他正在会议厅里徘徊。
He looks surprised whenever anyone recognizes him.
每当有人认出他时，他都会显得很惊讶。
One Fox television crew even stopped to interview him.
福克斯电视台的一名工作人员甚至停下来采访他。
"Mr. Taylor," began the reporter.
“泰勒先生，”记者开始说道。
"What do you mean with this 'Mr. Taylor' [BEEP]?" asked Morry.
“‘泰勒先生’[嘟嘟]声是什么意思？”莫里问道。
"Morry?" said the reporter uncertainly.
“莫里？”记者不确定的说道。
I tell him that just a few hours earlier, a man named Ed Harrison took the podium and started his speech with the immortal words, "Now, I'm not a politician and I'm not a lawyer.
我告诉他，就在几个小时前，一位名叫艾德·哈里森的人走上讲台，用不朽的话语开始了他的演讲：“现在，我不是政客，也不是律师。
I'm a businessman." He had stolen Morry's precise words.
我是一名商人。”他盗用了莫里的准确话语。
This, too, Morry can't quite believe.
这一点，莫里也不太相信。
He hasn't entirely grasped the power of the modern media.
他还没有完全掌握现代媒体的力量。
I have decided it's finally time to leave him, and I'm wondering how to break the news.
我决定终于是时候离开他了，我想知道如何宣布这个消息。
The Taylor campaign has come to an end, at least for the moment.
泰勒的竞选活动已经结束，至少目前是这样。
I have forgotten the general rule of American politics-- if you hang with Morry Taylor, the action will follow.
我忘记了美国政治的一般规则——如果你坚持莫里·泰勒，行动就会随之而来。
The rule continues to obtain.
规则继续获得。
We're sitting in the section reserved for the primary candidates, when Pat Buchanan appears for the first time on the convention floor.
当帕特·布坎南第一次出现在会议场地时，我们坐在为初选候选人保留的区域。
He's already got maybe 50 journalists with him.
他身边已经有大约 50 名记者。
He quickly accumulates another 100, plus several hundred delegates keen to shake his hand.
他很快又积累了 100 名代表，还有数百名热衷于与他握手的代表。
The result is a human tsunami that breaks across about a third of the conventional hall and lays waste to anything in its path.
其结果是一场人类海啸席卷了大约三分之一的传统大厅，并摧毁了其路径上的任何东西。
"People are being trampled," an enormous security guard shouts into his wrist mic.
“人们被践踏了，”一名身材魁梧的保安对着他的手腕麦克风喊道。
"Send me 50 people."
“给我派50个人来。”
The crowd at the convention has its own logic, however.
然而，大会上的人群有自己的逻辑。
People merely attract more people.
人们只会吸引更多的人。
For every added security man, three curiosity seekers join in.
每增加一名保安人员，就会有三名好奇者加入。
So as Buchanan circles the hall, the tension rises.
因此，当布坎南绕着大厅转一圈时，紧张气氛就加剧了。
He's like a ball bearing in a roulette wheel trying to decide where to settle.
他就像轮盘赌轮上的滚珠轴承一样，试图决定在哪里落脚。
At length, he comes to rest in the seat directly behind Morry.
最后，他在莫里正后方的座位上休息。
Fully one third of the convention is watching him and ignoring George W.
大会上整整三分之一的人都在注视着他，而忽略了乔治·W·布什。
Bush, who is speaking piously from the podium.
布什在讲台上虔诚地讲话。
"Open up a child daycare center at your church or synagogue." That sort of thing.
“在你的教堂或犹太教堂开设儿童日托中心。”诸如此类的事情。
"I need more help here," blares the guard into his wrist.
“我这里需要更多帮助，”守卫对着他的手腕大声喊道。
"Send help.
“发送帮助。
Send help."
发送帮助。”
Then Buchanan notices Morry.
然后布坎南注意到莫里。
"Morry Taylor is the problem here," he shouts mockingly.
“莫里·泰勒就是这里的问题，”他嘲笑地喊道。
"He's ruined the convention."
“他破坏了大会。”
"Did they do this to you when you got here, Morry?" shouts Bay Buchanan, joining her brother and ganging up on Morry.
“你刚到这里的时候他们就这样对你了吗，莫里？”贝伊·布坎南喊道，加入了她哥哥的行列，联合起来对付莫里。
It seems needlessly cruel.
这似乎是不必要的残酷。
Morry stands alone watching.
莫里独自站着观看。
"It's you, Pat," says Morry.
“是你，帕特，”莫里说。
"Leave Shelley with me and take these people out in the street."
“把雪莱留在我身边，把这些人带到街上去。”
The two former rivals vie to condescend to one another.
这两个昔日的竞争对手争先恐后地互相屈尊。
Buchanan is winning on points until he pushes it one inch too far.
布坎南在积分上获胜，直到他把分数推得太远了一英寸。
"Where's the keg, Morry?" he shouts.
“莫里，小桶在哪儿？”他喊道。
"Go get the keg."
“去拿桶吧。”
Morry looks up, licks his lip and says, "Hey, Pat, you're unemployed now." Then he turns to the cameras.
莫里抬起头，舔了舔嘴唇，说道：“嘿，帕特，你现在失业了。”然后他转向摄像机。
"He needs a job," Morry explains to the world's news media.
“他需要一份工作，”莫里向世界新闻媒体解释道。
"Or else he'll have to take unemployment."
“否则他将不得不失业。”
Gerald Ford and George Bush speak.
杰拉尔德·福特和乔治·布什发表讲话。
But no one around Buchanan listens.
但布坎南周围没有人听。
All eyes focus on the troublemaker who is giving serial interviews to the networks.
所有的目光都集中在这位正在接受电视台连续采访的麻烦制造者身上。
At last, Nancy Reagan appears to eulogize Ronny, which is strange.
最后，南希·里根似乎赞扬了罗尼，这很奇怪。
Republicans behave as if he has already died, whereas Nixon, who has actually died, is treated as if he were still alive.
共和党人的表现就好像他已经死了一样，而实际上已经去世的尼克松却被当作还活着。
She is followed by Colin Powell.
紧随其后的是科林·鲍威尔。
Then comes what I am sure will be the defining moment of the convention.
接下来我确信这将是大会的决定性时刻。
Powell raises his voice above the crowd and proclaims his belief in abortion rights.
鲍威尔在人群中高声宣扬他对堕胎权的信念。
The convention rises to its feet to applaud.
大会全体起立鼓掌。
I turn around and meet Buchanan's gaze.
我转过身来，与布坎南的目光相遇。
"Any reaction?" I ask idiotically.
“有什么反应吗？”我白痴地问。
In these circumstances it is, as a rule, impossible to think of a decent question.
在这种情况下，通常不可能想出一个像样的问题。
"What?" he says.
“什么？”他说。
"Any reaction?" I shout.
“有什么反应吗？”我喊道。
But the noise from the crowd is too loud.
但人群的噪音太大了。
Just in front of Morry, oddly enough, there is a man dressed in a monk's robe.
奇怪的是，就在莫里的面前，有一个穿着僧袍的男人。
On the back of the robe is a sign.
袍子的背面有一个标志。
It reads, "Diogenes went through the streets carrying a lantern.
上面写着：“第欧根尼提着灯笼穿过街道。
He held it up to strangers and said he was looking for an honest man."
他把它拿给陌生人看，并说他正在寻找一个诚实的人。”
Dole has invited Morry to join him on the stage Thursday night.
多尔邀请莫里周四晚上和他一起上台。
But Morry has, for the second time in as many days, declined Dole's invitation.
但莫里几天来第二次拒绝了多尔的邀请。
He figures it will merely be another meaningless free-for-all with everyone who ever thought of running for office crammed on to the stage.
他认为这只是另一场毫无意义的混战，所有曾经想过竞选公职的人都挤到了舞台上。
Although Morry's aides plead with me to try to change his mind, I can't honestly tell him he's wrong.
尽管莫里的助手恳求我尝试改变他的想法，但我不能诚实地告诉他他错了。
It's nothing personal, though he's still irritated that Dole lacked the sense to address 7,000 raving loyalists on motorcycles.
这并不是针对个人的事情，尽管他仍然对多尔缺乏向 7,000 名狂热的摩托车拥护者讲话的意识感到恼火。
It's just that convention life is less than it's cracked up to be, he's decided.
他断定，只是会议生活并不像人们所吹捧的那样。
In the morning his plane will take him and his friends to Las Vegas.
早上他的飞机将带他和他的朋友前往拉斯维加斯。
Michael Lewis-- his campaign diaries appear in The New Republic.
迈克尔·刘易斯——他的竞选日记出现在《新共和》上。
This will be in this week's issue.
这将出现在本周的期刊中。
Act Four, Party in the Killing Fields.
第四幕，杀戮场的派对。
Political conventions, of course, are basically big, glorified TV shows.
当然，政治大会基本上都是大型的、华丽的电视节目。
But they're also the stuff of memory.
但它们也是记忆中的东西。
Photo-snapping and autograph-seeking was everywhere in San Diego.
在圣地亚哥，拍照和索要签名随处可见。
Well, Cassandra Smith's father and grandfather were both Republicans, black Republicans, because of the ethic of self-reliance and because of Abraham Lincoln.
嗯，卡桑德拉·史密斯的父亲和祖父都是共和党人，黑人共和党人，因为自力更生的道德，也因为亚伯拉罕·林肯。
And they were trying to change the Republican Party from the inside.
他们试图从内部改变共和党。
And she has this memory of one convention.
她还记得一次大会。
I can't swear that I was the only 10-year-old Negro girl at the 1960 Republican Convention.
我不敢发誓我是 1960 年共和党大会上唯一的 10 岁黑人女孩。
But with the scarcity of black Republicans, especially as enthusiastic as my father, I think I can make the claim.
但由于黑人共和党人稀缺，尤其是像我父亲这样热情的人，我想我可以做出这样的说法。
"You'll see democracy in action," Daddy promised.
“你会看到民主的实际行动，”爸爸承诺道。
"Yes, history in the making.
“是的，历史正在形成。
You'll be the only kid in school to see Dick Nixon in person."
你将是学校里唯一亲眼见到迪克·尼克松的孩子。”
I wasn't impressed.
我没有留下深刻的印象。
I had just seen Soupy Sales at the state fair.
我刚刚在州博览会上看到了 Soupy Sales。
And Nixon was only a vice president.
而尼克松只是副总统。
Besides, I'd seen his face every morning when I came downstairs for breakfast.
此外，每天早上我下楼吃早餐时都会看到他的脸。
Above the fireplace, in a kind of Republican shrine, surrounded by a grey china elephant and a stack of "I Like Ike" buttons, hung a photo of my father, John Smith, and Richard Nixon shaking hands.
壁炉上方是一座共和党神殿，四周环绕着一头灰色瓷象和一叠“我喜欢艾克”的纽扣，上面挂着一张我父亲约翰·史密斯和理查德·尼克松握手的照片。
It was taken in 1958 when Nixon was vice president and Daddy was one of nine Young Republican Vice Chairmen.
这张照片拍摄于 1958 年，当时尼克松担任副总统，爸爸是九名年轻共和党副主席之一。
They are standing toe to toe, wingtip to wingtip, their hands clasped in a no-nonsense handshake.
他们站着，脚趾对脚趾，翼尖对翼尖，双手紧握，严肃地握手。
They even look a little alike, same height and build, the same oversize square head, shiny gray suit, intent, unwavering stare.
他们甚至看起来有点相似，同样的身高和体型，同样的超大方头，闪亮的灰色西装，专注而坚定的凝视。
I understand now that these photos were staged for the party faithful.
我现在明白了，这些照片是为党内忠实人士摆出来的。
But in 1960, I thought that Dick Nixon and my father were best friends, blood brothers who had cut their palms and clasped them together in a sacred ceremony preserved on film.
但在 1960 年，我认为迪克·尼克松和我的父亲是最好的朋友，是血兄弟，他们在电影中保存的神圣仪式中割断了手掌并将它们握在一起。
Daddy was proud of that photo-- framed it, bragged on it, and made sure his daughters kept it dusted.
爸爸为那张照片感到自豪——把它装裱起来，吹嘘它，并确保他的女儿们把它掸掉。
As far as he was concerned, he and Dick were comrades from the front lines.
对他来说，他和迪克是来自前线的战友。
His old friend was about to be promoted from vice president to president.
他的老朋友即将从副总统晋升为总统。
And we were traveling to Chicago to cheer him on.
我们正前往芝加哥为他加油。
We'd been in Chicago a couple of days, and Mother and I still couldn't get into the convention.
我们到芝加哥几天了，我和母亲仍然没能参加大会。
Every morning, Daddy had left us waiting while he searched for spectator tickets.
每天早上，爸爸都会让我们等着，而他则在寻找观众票。
When we finally got inside, the seats were in the nosebleed section.
当我们终于进去时，座位位于让人流鼻血的区域。
I was troubled.
我很烦恼。
If Nixon and my daddy are such good friends, why are we sitting up here?
如果尼克松和我爸爸是这么好的朋友，我们为什么坐在这里？
The next day we were in luck.
第二天我们很幸运。
The Republican women had planned to wear yellow dresses to a demonstration.
共和党妇女原计划穿着黄色连衣裙参加示威活动。
Mother wore hers and we slipped onto the convention floor.
妈妈穿上了她的衣服，我们溜进了会议场地。
What can I tell you about a convention from the eyes of a 10-year-old?
从一个 10 岁孩子的角度来看，我能告诉你关于大会的哪些信息？
Mostly, I saw belt buckles, breasts, and bellies.
大多数时候，我看到的是皮带扣、胸部和腹部。
Red, white, and blue balloons, the crush of bodies, funny hats, popcorn, the smell of Old Spice and Aqua Velva, grown-ups shouting and pushing like a bunch of kids, crushed toes, Texans in 10-gallon hats, and Goldwater delegates who never gave up trying to make you wear their buttons.
红色、白色和蓝色的气球，拥挤的人群，滑稽的帽子，爆米花，老香料和阿卡维尔瓦的气味，大人们像一群孩子一样大喊大叫，推挤，脚趾被压伤，德克萨斯人戴着10加仑的帽子，金水代表们从不放弃让你戴上他们的纽扣。
We joined the parade of Republican women marching round and round the floor demonstrating for or against something.
我们加入了共和党妇女的游行队伍，在地板上绕着一圈又一圈游行，示威支持或反对某件事。
Somehow we were spotted as frauds and led through the exit doors and into the midday sun.
不知何故，我们被发现是骗子，并被带出出口，进入正午的阳光下。
The international amphitheater was in the middle of the stockyards.
国际露天剧场位于牲畜饲养场的中央。
And although most of the slaughterhouses had closed, the smell of death was everywhere.
尽管大部分屠宰场都关门了，但死亡的味道却无处不在。
Nearby, Darling and Company, the last of the rendering firms, was boiling down hides, hooves, heads, tails into glue.
附近，达林公司（Darling and Company），最后一家提炼公司，正在将兽皮、蹄子、头、尾煮成胶水。
When the wind was right, you could smell it as far as Hyde Park, four miles away.
当风向合适时，远至四英里外的海德公园都能闻到香味。
But on a windless August day, we couldn't breathe.
但在八月无风的一天，我们无法呼吸。
We covered our eyes and mouths.
我们捂住眼睛和嘴巴。
We begged the guards to let us back in or send a message to father.
我们请求警卫让我们回去或者给父亲发个消息。
We were stranded alone in a vacant lot overgrown by weeds.
我们孤身一人被困在一片杂草丛生的空地上。
By now, I'd had it with Dick Nixon and decided the photo was a fraud, the convention nothing but a staged circus.
到现在为止，我已经和迪克·尼克松受够了，并认为这张照片是骗局，大会只不过是一场上演的马戏团。
We had been abandoned, locked out.
我们被抛弃了，被锁在门外了。
I still haven't found a political home.
我还没有找到政治归宿。
This year, the Republican talk about inclusion makes me nervous.
今年，共和党关于包容性的谈论让我感到紧张。
They repeat it too often and with too little evidence.
他们重复的次数太多，但证据却太少。
But this week, for the first time since 1960, I had a calm political discussion with my father.
但本周，自 1960 年以来我第一次与父亲进行了平静的政治讨论。
I was surprised.
我很惊讶。
Although he's proud of Colin Powell and still likes Republican economics, he feels as left out as I do.
尽管他为科林·鲍威尔感到自豪并且仍然喜欢共和党经济学，但他和我一样感到被忽视。
"The party hasn't changed," he admitted.
“政党没有改变，”他承认。
"They don't want us.
“他们不想要我们。
Not unless you do what they tell you.
除非你按照他们告诉你的去做。
That's my problem.
这是我的问题。
I never did what they told me." And for the first time, he explained to me the reason we didn't get tickets to the convention floor in 1960.
我从来没有按照他们告诉我的去做。” 1960 年，他第一次向我解释了我们没有买到会议厅门票的原因。
The state party leaders wanted him to run for the one office usually reserved for blacks.
州党领导人希望他竞选通常为黑人保留的职位。
Instead, he ran for a mainstream position and won.
相反，他竞选主流职位并获胜。
And that's how we ended up in a vacant lot that smelled of death, pounding on the doors to get in.
就这样，我们来到了一片充满死亡气息的空地，敲门想要进去。
Chicago writer Cassandra Smith.
芝加哥作家卡桑德拉·史密斯。
She's got a story in the new book, TriQuarterly New Writers.
她的新书《三季度新作家》中有一个故事。
Music by the late Oscar Brown III.
已故奥斯卡·布朗三世的音乐。
Well, our program was produced today by Peter Clowney and myself, with Alix Spiegel and Nancy Updike.
好吧，我们今天的节目是由彼得·克劳尼和我本人以及阿利克斯·斯皮格尔和南希·厄普代克制作的。
Contributing editors Paul Tough, Jack Hitt, and Margy Rochlin.
特约编辑 Paul Tough、Jack Hitt 和 Margy Rochlin。
Hey, want to hear an outtake?
嘿，想听听失败吗？
Sure you do.
当然可以。
From our recording session with Michael Lewis when he did his campaign diaries.
来自我们与迈克尔·刘易斯（Michael Lewis）录制竞选日记时的录音。
Hold on, let me this cued up.
等一下，让我把这个提示一下。
Here we go.
开始了。
As he does, the band strikes up a new song.
当他这样做时，乐队演奏了一首新歌。
Now, what do I do with this?
现在，我该怎么办？
I don't know what to do with it.
我不知道该怎么办。
[SINGING[ It's your thing-- I can't do that.
[唱歌[这是你的事——我不能那样做。
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS] Michael Lewis As he does, the band-- I can't do this.
[致谢]迈克尔·刘易斯 正如他所做的那样，乐队——我不能这样做。
If you would like a copy of this program-- it's only $10-- call us at WBEZ in Chicago.
如果您想要一份该程序的副本（只需 10 美元），请致电我们位于芝加哥的 WBEZ。
312-832-3380.
312-832-3380。
Our email address is [email protected] .
我们的电子邮件地址是 [email protected] 。
[FUNDING CREDITS] WBEZ management oversight by Torey Malatia.
[资金来源] WBEZ 管理由 Torey Malatia 监督。
I'm Ira Glass.
我是艾拉·格拉斯。
[SINGING] It's your thing.
[唱歌] 这是你的事。
I can't do that.
我不能那样做。
You ruined my life.
你毁了我的生活。
Yeah, are we ruining yours?
是啊，我们毁了你的吗？
Are we?
我们是吗？
Well, either way, we're going to be back next week with more stories of This American Life.
好吧，无论如何，我们下周都会带着更多《美国生活》的故事回来。
This American Life is produced in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago and delivered to stations by PRX The Public Radio Exchange.
《This American Life》与 WBEZ Chicago 合作制作，并由 PRX 公共广播电台传送到各电台。