Gee, I don't know.....maybe (gasp), the majority is in favor of it?
I attribute it to several things, one of them being that the population is too busy using drugs to be bothered about what is happening in the government. They are desensitized.
Considering their population uses drugs at a rate which is consistant with every other industrialized country (that isn't in Asia anyway), that theory doesn't hold much water.
If you had followed the link I posted you would find that the elderly are scared to death over there, but you are too busy being a smart a$$. Find someone else to play with--I don't have time for it.