拜登发表告别演说：警告「寡头政治」与科技工业复合体正在成形
2025年1月15日晚8时，美国总统拜登在华盛顿特区白宫椭圆形办公室发表告别演说，这是他最后一次以总统身份坐在办公桌前向全国发表讲话。
演说开场，拜登先通报当天达成的一项协议：经过八个月不间断谈判，以色列与哈马斯已达成停火与人质协议，框架即他2024年5月公布的方案；他表示已指示团队向候任政府充分通报，以便新政府接手落实。
回顾四年任期，他列举：任内创造近1,700万个新岗位，为历届单届政府之最；完成美国历史上规模最大的基础设施现代化之一；把半导体工厂与岗位带回美国；让联邦医疗保险（Medicare）首次有权谈判降低处方药价；通过30年来最重大的枪支安全法律，暴力犯罪降至50年低点。
演说的核心是一项警告。他说，权力危险地集中在极少数超富人群手中，若滥用不受遏制，后果严重：「今天，一个由极端财富、权力与影响力构成的寡头政治正在美国成形，它切实威胁着我们的整个民主、我们的基本权利与自由，以及人人获得公平机会的前景。」
他援引艾森豪威尔告别演说对「军事工业复合体」的警告，提出自己同样担忧一个可能给国家带来真实危险的「科技工业复合体」正在崛起；他还警告虚假信息与不实信息的雪崩正掩埋公众、自由新闻业正在凋零、社交媒体正在放弃事实核查，并称超级智能（SI）是「我们这个时代最具影响的技术」，必须确保其安全、可信、造福全人类。
他提出一串改革主张：改革税法、让亿万富翁缴纳公平份额；把「黑金」逐出政治；为最高法院大法官设定18年任期等最强力度的伦理改革；禁止国会议员在任内买卖股票；修宪明确总统对任内所犯罪行不享有豁免。
结尾处，从政50年的拜登说：「现在轮到你们站岗了。愿你们都成为火焰的守护者。」五天之后，2025年1月20日，特朗普在国会大厦宣誓就任第47任总统。
关联：特朗普宣誓就任美国第47任总统：就职演说称「美国的黄金时代从现在开始」
（来源：白宫）
Biden Delivers Farewell Address, Warning of an 'Oligarchy' and a Tech-Industrial Complex
At 8 p.m. on January 15, 2025, President Joe Biden delivered his farewell address from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., his final address to the nation from behind that desk as President.
He opened with news from earlier that day: after eight months of nonstop negotiation, Israel and Hamas had reached a cease-fire and hostage deal built on the framework he had laid out in May 2024, and he said he had directed his team to keep the incoming administration fully informed so it could carry out the plan.
Reviewing his four years in office, he cited nearly 17 million new jobs, more than any other single administration in a single term; one of the greatest modernizations of infrastructure in American history; semiconductor factories and jobs brought back to the United States; Medicare finally empowered to negotiate lower prescription drug prices; and the most significant gun safety law in 30 years, alongside violent crime at a 50-year low.
The heart of the address was a warning. He said power was being dangerously concentrated in the hands of very few ultrawealthy people, with dangerous consequences if that abuse of power were left unchecked: "Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead."
Echoing President Eisenhower's farewell warning about the military-industrial complex, Biden said he was equally concerned about the potential rise of a tech-industrial complex that could pose real dangers for the country. He warned of an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation, a crumbling free press and social media giving up on fact-checking, and called artificial intelligence the most consequential technology of our time, one that must be made safe and trustworthy and good for all humankind.
He set out a list of proposed reforms: reforming the tax code so billionaires pay their fair share; getting dark money out of politics; an 18-year term limit and the strongest ethics reforms for the Supreme Court; banning members of Congress from trading stock while in office; and amending the Constitution to make clear that no President is immune from crimes committed while in office.
Closing after 50 years of public service, Biden said: "Now it's your turn to stand guard. May you all be the keeper of the flame." Five days later, on January 20, 2025, Donald Trump was sworn in at the Capitol as the 47th President.
(Source: The White House)
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图片来源：图：拜登总统2025年1月15日在白宫椭圆形办公室发表告别演说。（白宫官方照片，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons） / Photo: President Biden delivers his farewell address from the Oval Office on January 15, 2025. (Official White House photo, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
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