Thai opinion: Absolutely democracy can be absolutely unacceptable

[candide]

Another stupid and incoherent article!

1- If no country does it, it's simply because it cannot work.

2- The comparison with a football team shows exactly the reverse of what the author tries to demonstrate. In Real Madrid there is a manager for recruiting and firing players, just as a PM can recruit and fire ministers in a "normal" system. And players don't negotiate between themselves according to their individual preferences. They have to act as a team and apply the common strategy and tactics defined.

[farangmick]

At least to OP comes up with some ideas, maybe Utopian. Thailand is very new to the idea of democracy, and has to adapt it to the customs of face saving, cool heart and the rest. A Thai MP calling an opponent a ginger rodent would be sued. So let us have parliamentary privilege for things said in the parliament.Change the defamation law so that speaking or publishing the truth can never be defammatory. This will never happen because it is so contrary to Thai culture. Britain has tried democracy for quite a long time, yet still ended up with Gordon Brown as PM. In fact, given the performance of succesive British governments in my lifetime (excepting Mrs T. of course), I would go back 800 years so parliament would be an advisory body, and the Queen would make the big decisions. She has a far better track record than the politicians.

[tbthailand]

Absolutely democracy can be absolutely unacceptable

another elitist red herring so they can continue to deny self-governance to the rest of the citizens.

[tbthailand]

When we empower the prime minister to pick the entire Cabinet, we give him or her too much and too unrealistic responsibility.

this is normal for executives to pick their cabinet - everywhere around the world.

It makes all political entities and virtually everyone gear up for one thing and one thing only - a general election victory.

elections are important because elections have consequences - that is the nature of real democracy.

That may work in other countries, but here the prime minister can end up as a kind of dictator, sending a highly superstitious person to lead the Science Ministry (for instance) and we can do absolutely nothing about it.

we have climate-change deniers chair congressional committees on science. Democracy is messy and crazy things happen.

None of these Thai analysts dare talk about the elephant in the room. Until democracy if freed from 'interventions', it doesn't matter how good or bad the politicians are. Just doesn't matter at all.