We can’t just work to help...
"Asking people to respond to the contemporary moment by redoubling their commitment to institutions that they mistrust, and that sometimes have failed them, seems like wishful thinking. At the same time, these institutions are best positioned to sustain what remains of democracy. The challenge is to support and celebrate those doing the hard, and increasingly reviled, work within bureaucracies to protect rights and deliver services, without losing track of how we got here. We can’t just work to help people recover trust in institutions. The slide in confidence is a generational one, and we can’t wait a generation or two to begin to engage with institutions. We know that mistrust leads to disengagement, and we cannot afford decades in which people choose to disengage from democracy." (Ethan Zuckerman, Mistrust: Why Losing Faith In Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them)
I'm sorry for the long quotation, but I had to. I couldn't figure the emphasized sentence (especially its stress) out, can you help me?
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As far as I can tell, the highlighted sentence is contrasting with the previous one: It isn't sufficient to work to help people recover trust, we have to do the things mentioned in the previous sentence too.
- As far as I can tell, the highlighted sentence is contrasting with the previous one: It isn't sufficient to work to help people recover trust, we have to do the things mentioned in the previous sentence too.
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As far as I can tell, the highlighted sentence is contrasting with the previous one: It isn't sufficient to work to help people recover trust, we have to do the things mentioned in the previous sentence too.
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