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一种简单的循环使“我好你不好”综合征长期存在:选民对国家状况的沮丧情绪使他们难于接受好消息,这反过来又强化了他们的沮丧感。数量相当大的美国人觉得,他们似乎生活在罪恶之城巴比伦。或者,正如1995年一期《大西洋月刊》的封面文章所提出的,美国正在经受一场“公共秩序的危机”。该文说:“我们逃离自己的城市,我们听任被残忍杀手控制的废墟不断扩展。我们听任千百万同胞面临一切危险和丢脸的攻击。”
A simple loop leaves the “I’m so sick of you” syndrome for a long time: the frustration of voters over the state of the country made it hard for them to accept the good news, which in turn reinforced their sense of frustration. A considerable number of Americans think they seem to live in the city of sin, Babylon. Or, as the cover article of the 1995 Atlantic Monthly shows, the United States is experiencing a “crisis of public order.” The article said: “We have fled our own city and we have allowed the ruins ruled by brutal killers to continue to grow, and we have taken on the end to all the dangerous and humiliating attacks on millions of our compatriots.”