The HK style democracy only brought a weak government and corrupt bureaucracy system . The lower class are struggling to live and the rich can have whatever they want . You know HK style ' democracy ' sucks because half of Legco are packed with proBeijing stooges who also happen to be buddies of the tycoons thanks to the Functional Constituencies . All measures proposed by the truly democratically elected geographic constituency which many would go a long way towards alleviating the burdens of the lower class are repeatedly blocked by these fuckers for the last 19 years . I can give you a laundry list of the lost battles if you care to listen . So who ' s making the lower class suffer ? I can assure you it ' s not Yau or Leung . Why is the bureaucracy corrupt ? That ' s because the first criteria , above of all , the HK government require these days to serve in the government is unquestioning loyalty to Beijing and the Chief Executive . And the sad truth is for a lot of these people their loyalty comes with a hefty price exhibit A Paul Chan Mopopo . There are so many cases indicating that democracy should never be given but only be earned by oneself . Bingo . We ' ll never earn our democracy if we don ' t take down the CCP first .