2021年6月5日
A Hongkonger
EJ Insight
Why democrats should run
Democrats should run.
It’s by no means an easy choice – but the question is, what would the counterfactual be? A world where they merge and become merely a string of pressure groups?
Or where they seek – through activism that is eventually thwarted by the increasingly taunted restrictions imposed over civil society-based political dissonance and radical politics – a futile way out?
Or, indeed, a bleak future where existing Democrats are relegated to political irrelevance, as new oppositional parties – including ones that are democratic in name only – emerge to take their place?
It’s unclear where the future lies for Hong Kong’s beleaguered democrats, if it is not with contesting the admittedly curtailed and procedurally stringent elections. These elections are likely to possess indubitably higher barriers to entry as compared with previous editions; the vetting is likely to be substantial and substantive, leaving little to no room for maneuvering when it comes to the “redlines” as drawn by the Establishment. ...
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