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，我参加了一档美国电视访谈节目，嘉宾是以色列教授、《智人：人类简史》(Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind)一书的作者尤瓦尔•诺厄•哈拉里(Yuval Noah Harari)。访谈中，主持人比尔•马厄(Bill Maher)哀叹道，“一批选举否认者”将在本周举行的美国中期选举中角逐国会席位。哈拉里皱起眉头，严肃地提出，美国的民主制度目前陷入如此深重的困境，以至于“下届总统大选可能是美国历史上最后一次民主选举”。他补充道：“几率不大，但是是有可能的。”