Hong Kong attempted to hold a referendum on democracy.
NOBODY TURNED UP!
Save for 570,000 people. And most didn’t care for democracy.
Ha. Ha. Haha. Hahaha!
In your face, social democrats. Hong Kong, rated the most intelligent country in the world with a median IQ of 108, doesn’t give a damn about democracy. Intelligent people have better things to do than vote. They are too happy to be a free nation, and they don’t want to give up their freedom for one vote.
Hong Kong conservatives do not want their nation to end up a pseudo-communist hellhole, under the migration of hundreds of thousands of Chinese people who will vote to turn their prosperous country into a broken welfare state with a big government, high taxes, and punishment of honest businesses. Instead, they prefer to be a government that resembles more a private business earning money only from parking tickets and using to offer additional public services on the side.
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16167654
EDIT: Comments on the article by Hong Kongers mention that the anti-Chinese pro-democracy groups are really pro-US lobbyists trying to infiltrate China. Big shock.
fyi..
2009 population estimate: 7,055,071 (wiki)
Intelligent people vote when it suits them. But it is good to note the Chinese (particularly the Cantonese speakers), who despite the communism, seem to affirm that on a routine basis to have a much more sane and even keeled outlook than the West. They do not seem to get too excited over retarded abstract ideas such as democracy or a militant commitment to non hierarchal structures.
So 570,000 out of 7 million people voted in a referendum. That’s nearly 6.5 million people who didn’t give a damn.
That’s 8% of the population which turned up. Most of whom voted against democracy. Meaning it’s less than 4% of Hong Kongers who even want democracy.
By the way, is it just me, or do micronations have the best standard of living in the world? From Qatar to Dubai to Monaco to Liechtenstein to Hong Kong to Singapore - it’s all grand in these places.
… Exactly what form of government does honkong have right now?
I’ve only recently started to vote. I guess, I’m becoming a moron.
This means nothing, this is just a correlation and a particularly weak one at that. (you’ve only shown this to be true in Hong Kong this year)
I strongly suspect Hoppean political maintenance theory has something to do with it (China being a non-hereditary oligarchy focused around long term CCP strength, Singapore being guided by the strong hand of Lee Kuan Yew, and the rest being monarchies in some shape or form), as well as the ease of transit to and from these countries (or Special Administrative Region, in Hong Kong’s case) and their small size, meaning they have to more competitive in order to survive in international economic terms, through things like becoming tax havens and free trade zones.
I’ve only recently started to vote. I guess, I’m becoming a moron.
While I find voting about 98% useless, and 100% obnoxious; I have found it useful on various occasions. Never on any federal issue yet though.