if that doesn't work, let's try something else."

如果这样不行那就再试其他办法"
We are a people when we make policy and we do it more slowly

我们作为一个民族在制定政策上进度很慢
because there's so much interest group activity now.

因为有太多的利益集团在左右
We've become a demosclerotic society--

我们正变成一个人民固化社会
I love that word.

我爱死这个词了
Demo from the demos, sclerotic it's a free word for you today,

Demo代表人民固化现在是自由词
nobody wrote it down, but I'm pretending you did.

居然没人写下来我就当你们都写了
Demosclerotic is a marvelous word coined by a friend of mine

人民固化这绝妙的词是我一朋友创造的
who is a journalist that basically means demos,

他是个记者他认为这个词代表着人民
we the people, sclerotic,

也就是我们的固化
like hardening of the arteries are the body of politics.

就好比政策这个身躯出现的动脉硬化
There's so many interest groups pushing so hard

有太多利益集团不遗余力的推动政策