观点｜杨安泽没有登上这次的辩论台，是大家共同的损失
JP 北美新视界1月14日
编者按｜华裔总统候选人杨安泽虽然没有闯入星期二的电视辩论，但是他抢先在同一场地提前一天进行了自己的选民见面会，宣讲政纲和回答提问。会上有一位他的自由红利的获得者做了见证。虽然自由红利不见得是唯一的解决办法，但是以人为本的经济确实是一种开创性的、超越传统党派立场的思维。以下是读者投稿，谈及这种新思维对于健康民主体制的重要性。
本篇文章为读者投稿，表达作者本人的观点
太多的美国人民，过度劳累、薪水不足、保险不足，而我们自己的政府却低估了他们。我们没有金钱或时间来准备任何紧急情况，更不用说威胁生命的紧急情况了。但是我一直在工作，我一直在努力，在我获得自由红利之前，我也尽力让生活能运转起来，但是有了自由红利之后，我们终于能够更快地康复、终于能够轻松地呼吸。
Too many of us are overworked, underpaid, underinsured, underappreciated by the companies we work for and undervalued by our own government. We do not have the money or the time to prepare for any emergency, let alone a life threatening emergency. But I kept working, I kept trying and I was able to get some small degree of traction even before I was given the freedom dividend. But with this freedom dividend, we have been able to recover quicker and breathe a little easier.
——自由红利试点获得者的见证
从政治上默默无闻地半路杀出，杨安泽搅动了美国总统选举的战场。他把人们的注意力拉回到现实的经济问题上，重新审视这个强大但缺乏人文关怀的经济体系。他精准地定位了当下美国真正的问题。
我始终相信，由于三个政治分支之间的力量平衡，美国民主体系的核心仍然很强大。为此我们每个人都应该感谢建国之父的伟大智慧，他们总结出了对人类文明的最佳学习成果。所谓的民主制度的第四大支柱——自由媒体，在平衡其他三个政治分支方面，无可否认地发挥了不可替代的作用。
但是，必须承认的是，许多人开始对这个民主制度失去信心。在过去的几十年中，人们看到，所有这些政治分支以及一些媒体受到了侵蚀并退化。其中一个指标，是原本属于中产阶级的“愤怒的选民”数目变得庞大。那些愤怒的、跟着情绪走的选民，可能会把错误的人扶上一些最重要的政治职位，从而对整个社会造成巨大损害。这已经发生并且可能再次发生。在权力平衡的政治体系下，具有理性和独立思考的、经济独立的民众或选民，是我们现代民主的基石。这是中产阶级的真正力量所在。不幸的是，过去几十年，真正的中产阶级明显萎缩、特别是中低端消失，成为影响美国民主的关键因素之一。
通过批评过时的GDP概念、指出政府和一些经济学家过于看重股票市场指数，杨安泽推动了正确的经济标准，用无可争议的准确数字为他所倡导的、二十一世纪的人道主义核心施政纲领背书，并以充分的觉识做好心理准备，迎接第四次工业革命的浪潮。
在过去的半年中，他是DNC辩论阶段中唯一一个提出了解决眼下经济和社会问题的具体可行政策的候选人，这些政策将使许多人的美国梦重新点燃，也终将巩固美国民主制度的基础。一个非常有趣的例子是，杨安泽是唯一一个可以赢得CNN的主播（如Anderson Cooper）和Fox的主播（如Tucker Carlson）支持的候选人，更别提The View节目里他受到所有五位来自左右不同立场的女主持人的一致欢迎。更有意思的是，在YouTube频道和评论部分中，他也是唯一一个能把特朗普支持者和奥巴马支持者都团结争取过来的候选人。
杨安泽不能参加这一次的电视辩论，是DNC的损失而非相反。对于那些希望在爱荷华州、新罕布什尔投票之前更好地了解他的人来说，也是一种损失。投票时不知道尚有更好的候选人，这是不幸和不公的状况，对每个人来说都是巨大的损失。
Everyone loses without Andrew Yang in the DNC debate
From nowhere and as a political nobody, Andrew Yang has stirred up the US President election battle field by bringing people’s attention back to today’s real economic problem: a powerful economy without humanity. He addresses this problem with a laser focus.
I have always believed that the core of the American democratic system is still strong because of due to the balance of powers among three political branches. Each of us really should needs to thank the great wisdoms of the founding fathers to assemble in assembling the best learning out of human civilization. My so-called 4th pillar of the democracy system: free media, has undeniably played an irreplaceable role to check out the other three political branches.
However, it is not undeniable that many people start to lose has lost their faith in this democracy system. In past decades, people see have seen all those political branches-and even some of the media-have been under erosion and degradation. One indicator is the growth of a large number of “angry” voters, who used to be part of middle class families the middle class. These angry and emotional voters could put the wrong people in some of the most important political positions, causing huge damage to the whole society. It has happened before and could happen again.
Underneath the power-balanced political system, economically-independent people who are voters with rational and independently-thinking approach make up the cornerstone of our modern democracy. This is the true power of the middle class people. Unfortunately and obviously, the shrinking of the true middle class, especially the disappearance of the lower- middle class in the past decade, is one of key erosion factors to American democracy.
Through challenging the aging concept of GDP and the overplayed index of the stock market by the government and some economists, Andrew Yang has brought back the right economic criteria along with good math and ironclad numbers. These numbers back up his 21st century humanity-first policies with a full awareness of and good preparation for the emergence of the 4th industrial revolution.
In the past year and a half, he is the only candidate on National debate stages to talk about specific policies to help the economy and the people, which will recover the American dream for many. This will eventually re-enforce the foundation of the American democratic system. One extremely interesting example is that Andrew is the only candidate to unite CNN anchors such as Anderson Cooper as well as Fox hosts like Tucker Carson. This is not even talking about how popular Andrew is on The View with all five female hosts, who range from left to right politically. In YouTube channels and comments sections, it is amazing to see that he is the only candidate to unite previous Trump voters and Obama voters.
It is an unfortunate outcome for the DNC party that Andrew Yang won’t be able to join the debate next week, not the other way around. It is a loss for those who may want to understand him better before the Iowa and New Hampshire vote. To vote without knowing there is a better candidate is an unfortunate situation and a big loss for everyone.
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