2021年8月17日
A Hongkonger
EJ Insight
On dirty hands
Politics is by no means easy in the contemporary era.
On one hand, politicians – especially in electoral or semi-democracies – must answer to the will and whims of their audience; they must entertain and keep their audience happy, and match or "reflect" the avowed preferences of those who have and will continue to back them. On the other hand, they must uphold the actual, substantial interests of all individuals in the society – not only those who elect them, or whose support they counted on in climbing to the top (in non-electoral democracies), but also those whose interests are entangled with the trajectory and development of the society, i.e. the rest of the people at large. ...
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