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    Prawit admits election may be delayed 'if risk of damage'

    in Thailand News Headlines

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    "The masses" voted for Thaksin (in 2001, again in 2005, again in 2006, for his proxy in 2007 and again for his proxy in 2011). That suggests to me a certain consistency over a sustained period. The reasons that they voted for him are many and varied, but undoubtedly the main driving factor was that they thought he would improve their lives (arguably he did). The last three election results were overturned by less than democratic means, to favour the military and their backers. That also suggests a certain consistency over a sustained period. This rather suggests to me that the root cause is in fact the repeated refusal of the military and those they serve to accept the repeated choice of "the masses".
     
    Whilst I rather agree with much of what you have said lately about Trump, he is not an american version of Thaksin.

    Yes he is. An out and out populist.[although 2 million short of popular] telling the white working class in Midwest they can go back to the days of US manufacturing everything they bought, until Asia cottoned on!


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