“a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too." (“一群没有孩子的猫女士,她们对自己的生活和所做的选择感到痛苦,所以她们也想让全国其他人感到痛苦。”)
万斯接着说:“It's just a basic fact — you look at Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, AOC — the entire future of the Democrats is controlled by people without children. And how does it make any sense that we've turned our country over to people who don't really have a direct stake in it?"(“这只是一个基本事实——看看卡玛拉·哈里斯、皮特·布蒂吉格、AOC——民主党的整个未来被没有孩子的人控制着。我们怎么能把国家交给那些没有直接利益的人,这有什么道理?”)。
这里需要纠正的是,拜登有儿有女,有从军打仗的长子,更有令他头痛的耶鲁败家子Hunter。
他也这样解释:"Obviously it was a sarcastic comment. People are focusing so much on the sarcasm and not on the substance of what I actually said," (“显然那是一个讽刺的评论。人们过于关注讽刺本身,而不是我实际所说的内容。”)
他的这些观点传递的就是正面的价值观:“The simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way," he said. (“我简单的观点是,我认为有孩子、成为父亲、成为母亲确实会以相当深刻的方式改变你的看法,”他说)
对勤劳辅育孩子的父母应该尊重才对:"I'm making an argument that our entire society has become sceptical and even hateful towards the idea of having kids."(“我的论点是,我们整个社会已经对生孩子的想法变得怀疑甚至仇视”)
关于虎妈培养万斯的文章在陌上美国阅读100k+,也被其他媒体转载。我同意几十年老朋友和哈佛老爸的判断,他是个自由派,希拉里真是最为接近美国总统宝座的女性:“估计十年内不会再有一个黑人总统,也不会有女总统。 希拉莉没有效利用老公,正如Gore 不用Bill一样stupid. 当她在费城与奥巴马夫妇同台高调竞选,我就知道她败了。 不知谁stupid and naive enough to be Harris的副总? 他不仅败选,而且会断送以后的希望。”[偷笑][偷笑]。
“When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power, you should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic than people who don't have kids. Let's face the consequences and the reality: if you don't have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn't get nearly the same voice.
Now people will say — and i'm sure The Atlantic and The Washington Post and all the usual suspects will criticize me about this in the coming days… "Well, doesn't this mean that non-parents don't have as much of a voice as parents? Doesn't this mean that parents get a bigger say in how our democracy functions?" Yes, absolutely.“——Quote from JD Vance's talk at Intercollegiate Studies Institute.