The core demand of the Hong Kong protests is suffrage, so the idea that protesters would seek to distrupt an election is the deepest possible misreading of what is going on. The scary thing is this might be an honest misreading; the disconnect by authorities is that profound
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If only there were some way to have a government that was more in touch with what was actually going on in the city, possibly by some arrangement where the public could periodically indicate its preference for specific people to do the job
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