If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it -- the intelligentsia -- unless they are prepared to lie about their beliefs.
如果我是正确的话，着就是意味着 这个世界上最伟大的国家的高级职位 是不向最有能力胜任的人-知识分子-开放的， 除非他们做好在他们的信仰上撒谎的准备。