Hong Kong leader complains: Allowing democracy would let poor people dominate elections

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/hong-kong-leader-complains-allowing-democracy-would-let-poor-people-dominate-elections/



A pro-democracy protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask stands at a barricade during a stand-off with police in Hong Kong's Mong Kok district on Oct. 19, 2014.

Hong Kong leader complains: Allowing democracy would let poor people dominate elections
Agence France-Presse
20 Oct 2014 at 22:14 ET

Hong Kong’s Beijing-backed leader Leung Chun-ying told media that if the government met pro-democracy protesters’ demands it would result in the city’s poorer people dominating elections.

In an interview with foreign media, carried in the Wall Street Journal and International New York Times, the embattled chief executive reiterated his position that free elections were impossible.

Demonstrators have paralysed parts of Hong Kong with mass rallies and road blockades for more than three weeks, in one of the biggest challenges to Beijing’s authority since the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests of 1989.

Leung’s comments were published just hours before talks between senior government officials and student leaders to end the impasse are scheduled to take place later on Tuesday.

[liberal N proud]

1. We wouldn't want poor people dominating elections

That would be terrible, they might vote in their own best interest and become a little less poor.

[bemildred]

2. That is the idea, glad he has figured it out. nt

[PeoViejo]

3. Seems there's not much difference between a Capitalist and the Neo-Communists.

I wonder what the ghosts of the Long March would say.

[Enthusiast]

6. Neo-Communists, Neo-Liberals and Neo-Cons = anti human being.

[bemildred]

7. Not a damn bit of difference in any of them when it comes to power. nt

[spike91nz]

4. making the poor count

in the democratic process is how you effect political change to correct the conditions contributing to the production of poverty. There is value in democratic political feedback over and above mere economic feedback. This appears to be a difficult concept for some politicians to grasp.

[Enthusiast]

5. That is some Communist Government ya got there, China.

[annabanana]

8. rilly. . . "communist"

The word. like so many others, has completely lost it's meaning

[fasttense]

9. Exactly

It's infuriating to see China called a Communist country when they clearly practice some sort of Milton Friedman type of capitalism. It's like calling the US a socialist country. It really gives a bad name to communism.

[get the red out]

10. Not if they use the US as an example

We can show them how to make sure only the ultra rich control elections.

[annabanana]

11. snarf...

good one!