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chính trị ở washington như đấu vật chuyên nghiệp,

trông hò hét, chửi bới, như "ăn tươi nuốt sống" nhau đến nơi,

nhưng thật ra cùng hợp tác với nhau lấy tiền khán giả thôi...
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trích dẫn hôm nay… is from pages 8-9 of Peter Schweizer’s 2013 book, Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets:

Politics in Washington is a lot like professional wrestling (đấu vật chuyên nghiệp). What seems like vicious (dữ dội, khắc nghiệt) combat (trận đánh) to the uninitiated is actually choreographed (sáng tác và dàn dựng điệu múa balê) acting. Professional wrestlers face off (đương đầu) in the ring (trên khán đài), shouting and pointing fingers and appearing to hate each other. But in fact, they are partners (đối tác) in a commercial enterprise to entertain (giải trí) and extract (bòn, rút) money (tiền) from the audience (khán giả).

DBx: Yep.

Near the end of his excellent – and favorable – review, in Regulation, of my GMU Econ colleague Garett Jones’s new book, 10% Less Democracy, David Henderson expresses understandable displeasure when he learned from Garett that Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) would often affectionately bear-hug each other in the corridors of the Capitol. (Garett once served as an aide to Hatch, and David remembers Kennedy’s abominable (ghê tởm, kinh tởm; tồi tệ, xấu xa) behavior after the tragic incident (thảm họa) at Chappaquiddick.) While Peter Schweizer’s point does nothing to diminish David’s (or anyone else’s) distaste for Kennedy, it does help us to better understand the character of the great majority of people who successfully seek and retain power (duy trì quyền lực).

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