Political in Hong Kong? Give me a break

Don’t mean to make this column to be too political or too sensitive. But the next Chief

Executive election has been a hot topic in Hong Kong over the last 2 months. I only

realized I was in one of the sector who was able to vote for the “selected-group” (those

who can really vote for our next CE) due to my profession. Normally I would be up for

any voting and made an effort but definitely not this time. Why? Because seriously I find

the whole thing diabolical and ridiculous.

Why do those “selected-group” people can represent all Hong Kong citizens to vote for

someone who will lead our city in the next 5 years ? You either have no votes and let

the “grandpa” from Mainland to appoint someone or everyone has ONE vote. It’s

meaningless for most Hong Kong people that they can only watch but cannot be

involved, what’s the point ?

Some people may argue that Hong Kong political environment is still very green and

immature for a public voting. However, I don’t see it being “maturing” if the final decision

is from the people up north. Yes, it takes time to develop a mature political awareness of

general public but only through numerous times of public voting. Look at Taiwan, they

used to be extremely corruptive and violent in their past election. They have done

remarkably well this time around for their President election. I am not saying that the

“one-people-one-vote” system would be able to find the perfect leader for Hong Kong. I

just think that at least it’s someone we choose and if he’s not performing well or had

broken promises, we won’t vote for him again.

On the other hand, the democratic parties in Hong Kong has been pretty abysmal.

Some has been extremely old-school and not moving forward. Some has been over-

violent and opposing everything just for the sake of it and actually ruining the image of

“democrats”. Even my favourite Civic Party has been rather disappointing because of the

two high-profile legal cases. The whole democratic parties seem to be toothless when

they up against the “Mainland-based” parties. For sure their resources are incomparable

but I find their organization and togetherness are pretty distinctive as well. As much as I

do not support them, I think they have been using their resources wisely, have a better

organization and people are more united to achieve certain goals and more importantly a

better election strategy. This is something the democratic parties should have learnt

from. They cannot just keep finding mistakes from Government and made a meal of it to

arouse the awareness like the 7.1 parade. It’s kinda a one-off and not easy to happen

again.

So what can Hong Kong people hope for? well pretty much nothing really, especially if

Mr Pig comes out winning in March. At least the next 5 years we won’t be having a smart

leader sailing our ship. Just pray he won’t make the ship sinking is good enough.

But this is Hong Kong, our Hong Kong, and we should do everything we can to keep

our Hong Kong as good as it was.