Because people, even in the authoritarian era, hold these ideas as regulatory thoughts, like, “One day we will get there.” It’s still in generations of people educated in Taiwan that someday if the technology is right, that we don’t have to have a martial law anymore, someday we will have direct democracy. That’s well within the original ideas more than 100 years ago of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

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