Objection number two, it's not really slavery to tax because at least in a democratic society it's not a slave holder.

第二条反对意见，征税算不上是奴隶制,因为至少在民主社会,不存在奴隶主。

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Well, right, but at some point - Don't you believe in, I mean, you say 80 percent, 10 percent majority.

相信，但某种程度上。。。，-你不相信民主吗，你在说80%，10%，那多数原则呢。

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Tocqueville couldn't resist it, it was the thing he couldn't stop writing about in Democracy in America, and he was only observing in 1831.

托克维尔抗拒不了,这使他情不自禁的写下,《美国的民主》这部著作,他仅了解1831年的美国

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What bothers Socrates most about our democracy is a certain kind of instability, its tendency to be pulled between extremes of anarchy, between lawlessness and tyranny.

苏格拉底对我们民主最感困扰的是,不稳定性，倾向于失序两端,拉扯的特性，即介于目无法纪与专制之间。

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It is a society where the leadership for sure, and much of the non-leadership, were suspicious of reform, suspicious of change, suspicious of democracy itself.

在南方社会,无论是领导还是非领导层,都不支持革命,他们怀疑变革,怀疑民主

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It's the worst that's been tried except for everything else.

民主是若对比于不尝试他法,将是最糟的一种。

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Exactly, but -- In a democracy. Aren't you for democracy?

确实，不过-,身处民主制中，你不赞成民主吗？

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He wasn't only a critic of democracy.

他不只是批评民主。

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Don't you believe in democracy?

你不相信民主吗？

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Think of that, that where the law is silent, we have the freedom to do or not to do as we choose, very important to the way we think of liberty today in a modern and you might say liberal democracy.

仔细想想，在法律所认可的地方，我们可按自己的选择去做或是不做，这对身在现代自由民主时代的我们,思考何为自由至关重要。

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