The first is equality – a term popular in social and political discourse.

第一个是平等——这个术语在社会和政治演说中非常常见。

Such helplessness may be why there seems such weariness in our public and political discourse.

这样的无助感或许就是我们的公众和政治讲话如此消沉的原因。

It’s at the forefront of national debates and is driving political discourse.

它处于全国辩论的最前沿，并正在推动政治讨论。

But today the political discourse in America includes questions that are straight from the land of the absurd.

但今天美国的政治话语包括直接来自荒谬之地的问题。

Plus political discourse doesn't typically take place on LinkedIn and the company openly plays by the rules in China.

此外，政治言论通常不会在 LinkedIn 上进行，而且该公司在中国公开遵守规则。

Today an inability to combine principles with pragmatism and make a compromise when required seems to have driven our whole political discourse down the wrong path.

当前，政客们缺乏将原则和实用主义结合起来的能力，也不愿在必要时做出妥协，这似乎将我们的整个政治语言推向了错误方向。

And maybe that's another thing that has crept from political discourse into legal discourse, is the idea that this is a pretext, right?

也许这是从政治话语渗透到法律话语的另一件事，这是一个借口，对吗？

We can even see traditional authority of a kind at work in the reverence with which the Constitution and the " Founding Fathers" are invoked in political discourse.

我们甚至可以在政治话语中援引宪法和“开国元勋”的崇敬中看到某种传统权威在起作用。

Even when modern populist leaders don't follow through with their most extreme promises, their impact on political discourse, the rule of law, and public trust can long outlast their time in office.

即使现代民粹主义领导人没有兑现他们最极端的承诺，他们对政治话语、法治和公众信任的影响也可能比他们在任期间更长久。

There is virtually no privacy, and the nature and form of modern political discourse means that there is a much greater intensity, dare I say it, brutality to life as a politician than in years gone by.

几乎没有隐私， 现代政治话语的性质和形式意味着，我敢说，与过去的岁月相比， 政治家的生活更加残酷。