Confrontation and brinkmanship have become the new watchwords of American politics, even when the US government’s legal ability to pay its debts is on the line, owing to the Tea Party’s ideological rigidity. And the tone of political debate, not surprisingly, has become much nastier.
拜茶党僵化的意识形态所赐，尽管美国政府偿还其债务的法定能力一切正常，但对峙和边缘政策已经成为美国政坛的新暗语了。毫不奇怪，政治争论的论调也变得更加乌烟瘴气了。