The president’s domestic agenda is bold and revolutionary, but it clashes frontally with the most fundamental tenets of America’s liberal and individualistic ethos. His health-care reform plan, as the Massachusetts vote demonstrated, is perceived as a personal obsession and an entirely unnecessary distraction from much more urgent and vital concerns, such as the financial crisis and unemployment.
总统的国内议程大胆而富于革命色彩，但与支撑美国自由而个性化社会道德的最根本的原则发生了正面冲突。正如马萨诸塞州投票所表明的那样，他的医疗改革计划被普遍看成是一种个人化的迷恋，将人们的注意力从金融危机和失业等急迫而重要得多的问题上毫无必要地转移开去。