梅之败的主要原因在于她犯了一个致命的错误：要求年长者自己想办法承担他们的社保支出的大头，这个办法往往就是依靠他们住了一辈子得房子。
The primary cause of May’s defeat was her fatal misstep in proposing that elderly people pay for a substantial portion of their social care out of their own resources, usually the value of the homes that they have lived in all of their lives.