... Hong Kong has been free in its recent history, and remains freer than any Western society today, precisely because it has had zero democracy.
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... If Hong Kong is worried about losing its freedoms today, some kind of hardened charter city status based on the principle of One Country Two Systems is the answer. Democracy is completely irrelevant to it, except as a spoiler. ...
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... The CPC would be sensible to respectfully acknowledge the city's tradition of ultra-light-handed colonial governance, but that's probably ruled out by the ambient democratic insanity of our age.
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The only people who have a chance to enjoy freedom, in any society, are those who have a vote in policy outcomes. Those who don't are dependent on the goodwill of the voters for their freedom - eg Hong Kongers depending on the goodwill of English civil servants until 1997.
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Classical liberal colonial administrators are FAR superior guarantors of liberty than any imaginable electorate.
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Political and policy decisions in every political unit are decided by voting. The question is - who gets to vote? The +18 population? The landed gentry? The central policy committee? Or just the chairman of the ruling party?
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Political and policy decisions in any sane political unit are decided by an integrated executive, appointed by sovereign stockholders, and sensitive only to exit pressure.
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