Thailand is going to the polls today for the first vote in years.
I’m not a thai expert, but sounds like a lot of you have spent significant time there.
It seems kind of a farce to me, especially with the whole princess running which caused a party to be banned thing.
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Unfortunately Thailand has never really done democracy well. But then again, not many countries have - particulary in places where it has been imposed on top of the existing system. It needs to develop organically, and that means extremely slowly. It must be part of the very fabric of a county's culture for it to be strong enough to succeed long term.
The implication is that the West's promulgation of democracy as the one-size-fits-all system for everybody is highly problematic.
To this point, Thailand seems to have integrated democracy to a relatively high level within it's citizens civic values - but the monarchy, military and wealthy elites are still far more powerful when it comes to the crunch.
The implication is that the West's promulgation of democracy as the one-size-fits-all system for everybody is highly problematic.
To this point, Thailand seems to have integrated democracy to a relatively high level within it's citizens civic values - but the monarchy, military and wealthy elites are still far more powerful when it comes to the crunch.
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