Greed and immorality the main reason for Thai political gridlock.
My 2¢ that it has got to do with greed and the wealth divide...
Greed and immorality the main reason for Thai political gridlock.
Problem is that both the democrats (yellow shirts) and the Pheu Thai (red shirts) party and their supporters BOTH operate like
criminal syndicates/ the Mafia. Which ever is in power, usually through
pork barrel politics (Pheu Thai/Taksin related: rice pledging$$$ scheme) or
partisan bias/connection (Democrats with army, judiciary and some say the King Bhumibol Adulyadej: previously overthrew Pheu Thai with military coup and recently: judicial conviction followed by military coup): the party in power will strive to benefit its own supporters at the expense of citizen groups not of its supporter type: e.g. Democrats might neglect rural folk (high rural taxes, zero infrastructure, education provision etc) whilst Pheu Thai is accused of squandering nations $$$ e.g. through focused rice farmer benefits like
the pledging to pay inflated prices for farmer's rice using tax payer funds, for which YingLuck was recently indicted by the Thai anti-corruption commission.
So long as each side of the political divide remains distracted by personal profit and prefers to advance each's own interest through
criminal syndicates/ Mafia group like political parties, with the extermination of members of opposite groups always at the back of their mind, so as achieve greater access to national coffers; and use parliament as a boxing ring rather than a meeting room toward achieving mediated/ consensus based future planning: then a worsening of the rural-city divide is set to happen.
During World War 2, Thailand was ruled by a dictator and as I understand, due to his
moral ineptitude, sided with Japan simply because Japan seemed the stronger power in Asia at the first half of WW2 (when Japan invaded SE Asia hoping to enslave other nations): thus providing a land through pass route to attack Malaya etc.
Likewise, this same
moral ineptitude continues to haunt weak spined Thailand as its citizens remain divided based upon urbanisation spectrum with each side of the urbanisation spectrum unable to accomodate/ appreciate the interest of the other and come to a consensus agreement: and instead allowing their rivary/ hatred to grow.
The effort into choosing one's political representation has to exceed the effort at choosing a winning race horse/ soccer team. It is akin to sacrificin oneself to defend the nation: without which, a sovereign Thailand would desist.
Thailand has allowed greed and distrust between its citizens to fester too much along urbanisation/ wealth lines, if the current state of affairs continues, Thailand might descend into civil chaos.
