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Yet he chose to embrace his enemies instead, while forcing his own party to compromise.
但是他選擇了擁抱自己的敵人，同時迫使他所在的政黨去妥協
And Trudeau pushed everyone to stop thinking in tribal terms
特魯多促使大家都不再去想部落
and to see multiculturalism, not language and not skin color, as what made them quintessentially Canadian.
并且去考慮用多元文化主義，而不是語言和膚色，去作為典型加拿大人的標志
Nobody got everything they wanted, but everyone got just enough that the bargains held.
沒有人得到了自己想要的一切，但每一個人通過討價還價都得到了滿足
So at this point you may be thinking, "OK, Tepperman,
所以此時此刻你可能在想，“好吧，特普曼
if the fixes really are out there like you keep insisting,
如果這些修復像你所堅持的那樣真的存在
then why aren't more countries already using them?"
那么為什么沒有更多的國家使用它們？”
It's not like they require special powers to pull off.
不是說它們需要什么特別的力量去實現。
I mean, none of the leaders we've just looked at were superheroes.
我是說，我們剛才所說的幾位領導人沒有一個是超級英雄。
They didn't accomplish anything on their own, and they all had plenty of flaws.
他們個人并沒有達成什么成就，他們都有一大堆的缺點。
Take Indonesia's first democratic president, Abdurrahman Wahid.
就說印尼的第一位民選總統阿卜杜勒拉赫曼·瓦希德
This man was so powerfully uncharismatic that he once fell asleep in the middle of his own speech. True story.
這么一個魅力強大的人，有一次竟然在自己的演講中睡著了。這是真事。
So what this tells us is that the real obstacle is not ability, and it's not circumstances.
這個故事告訴我們真正的障礙不是能力，不是環境
It's something much simpler.
而是一些更簡單的東西
Making big changes involves taking big risks, and taking big risks is scary.
要做大的改變就要承擔大的風險，而承擔大的風險是很可怕的。
Overcoming that fear requires guts, and as you all know, gutsy politicians are painfully rare.
克服那種恐懼需要勇氣，而正如你所知，勇敢的政治家少之又少。
But that doesn't mean we voters can't demand courage from our political leaders.
但那并不意味著我們這些選民不能要求我們的政治領導人拿出勇氣來。
I mean, that's why we put them in office in the first place.
我的意思是，那正是當初我們選他們的原因。
And given the state of the world today, there's really no other option.
考慮到當今世界的現狀，我們真的沒有其它的選擇。
The answers are out there,
答案就在那
but now it's up to us to elect more women and men brave enough to find them,
現在就靠我們去選出更多有足夠勇氣的女人和男人去找到它們
to steal them and to make them work. Thank you.
竊取它們，并使它們為我所用。謝謝。
