DrTuner Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 44 minutes ago, Eric Loh said: You underestimated the youth of voting age coming out to vote. Past elections, the youth between 18-24 were disinterested in politics. A survey 2010, youth of that age group that were keen to vote only represented 37.9%. Recent survey revealed almost 90% will vote in the March election. After 5 years of military rule, these young voters are calling for change. Manifested in the rap song against dictator that garnered millions of likes and social media negative expression towards the junta. Youth between 18-35 make out over a quarter of the 50 million electorate. That is a significant number that could whitewash the junta political parties. Very good if the youngsters vote. Even better if they bother to find out which candidate is not totally in junta's pocket - not an easy feat. I too would like to know so I can tell wife who to vote for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannork Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I can't stand Thaksin but I have to admire the marketing tactics of his parties. One of the offshoots of Pheua Thai is Thai Raksa Chart, the logo of which clearly resembles Thaksin Chinawat. And today they announce their policy of Techsynomics Technology sync Economics Hey! That actually sounds remarkably similar to the word Thaksinomics Thaksin's old policy. lol..... I bet Prayuth and his spin doctors are gnashing their teeth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chama Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 14 hours ago, bluesofa said: I share your frustration. The only way anything can be foreseen here is by the use of a fortune teller. I didn't realise the website crashed on the first day for the last election too. That only tells you that learning from previous experience didn't work. Usually here most maintenance/technical staff will only work on a corrective maintenance basis, rather than a preventative maintenance one. Even that seems to have failed in this case if it's happened for a second time in a row. Or was the crash something that had been expected or even desired? If for some reason this is seen as an indicator of public opinion that is troubling for the commission they may want to slow down the registration and set up the portal to be more responsive in certain geographical areas...which would suggest that not everyone will be registered in time to vote. We'll see but I'm sure certain influential parties are pulling out all the stops to ensure victory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SABloke Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 3 hours ago, DrTuner said: Very good if the youngsters vote. Even better if they bother to find out which candidate is not totally in junta's pocket - not an easy feat. I too would like to know so I can tell wife who to vote for. What about letting her decide? ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choff56 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 9 hours ago, Eric Loh said: That's a very extreme view which I doubt the elites and their wealthy sponsors will subscribe. Thailand is a trading nation and depends on good relationship with all countries in particular with USA and the EU. Thailand has a long diplomatic relationship with USA since the 1833 and derived lots of military and economic benefits. Thailand relationship with PRC and Russia were relatively recent. The military treaties and economic pact like the GSP and the Treaty of Amity are strong incentives for Thailand not to pivot excessively towards the socialist countries. If Thailand was to clamp up like Cambodia which has a much different history; it will suffer immense economic downside; will be intolerable for the elites and their capitalist friends and an uneasy populace. Thailand do have a knack for staying neutral like in the 2 WW. That policy has worked and they will likely to continue. Thailand has been playing the middle game for a long time, it's not going to change now. They're masters at playing one side against the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choff56 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 9 hours ago, Eric Loh said: That's a very extreme view which I doubt the elites and their wealthy sponsors will subscribe. Thailand is a trading nation and depends on good relationship with all countries in particular with USA and the EU. Thailand has a long diplomatic relationship with USA since the 1833 and derived lots of military and economic benefits. Thailand relationship with PRC and Russia were relatively recent. The military treaties and economic pact like the GSP and the Treaty of Amity are strong incentives for Thailand not to pivot excessively towards the socialist countries. If Thailand was to clamp up like Cambodia which has a much different history; it will suffer immense economic downside; will be intolerable for the elites and their capitalist friends and an uneasy populace. Thailand do have a knack for staying neutral like in the 2 WW. That policy has worked and they will likely to continue. Thailand has been playing the middle game for a long time, it's not going to change now. They're masters at playing one side against the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 53 minutes ago, SABloke said: What about letting her decide? ???? She can't be arsed to vote if I don't tell her which one. She's a Thai, what can I say, she knows it's basically useless and won't bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydebolle Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Surprise, surprise - pull article 44 against the webmaster and get the site up and running again - next! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spidermike007 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 15 hours ago, Eric Loh said: You underestimated the youth of voting age coming out to vote. Past elections, the youth between 18-24 were disinterested in politics. A survey 2010, youth of that age group that were keen to vote only represented 37.9%. Recent survey revealed almost 90% will vote in the March election. After 5 years of military rule, these young voters are calling for change. Manifested in the rap song against dictator that garnered millions of likes and social media negative expression towards the junta. Youth between 18-35 make out over a quarter of the 50 million electorate. That is a significant number that could whitewash the junta political parties. I think you have stated a far more accurate assessment of the one from madmen. The youth are pissed off. And for good reasons. I do think the majority are too, they just do not like talking about it. Most know that the army has their well being on the end of the list. And one can see by the sabotaging of the tourism industry, a significant rise in the cost of living, and many other factors, that the country has not been well run. The army has attempted to squash any sort of dissent, but the signs are there, that the masses are ready for a change. Any change would be better than these incompetents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrTuner Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 4 hours ago, spidermike007 said: Any change would be better than these incompetents. Perhaps not any, a Pol Pot style commieland would still be worse - enter from the the Xi & Co. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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