LT beat me to it. see above.So what is your definition of 'intelligent vote'? Someone who votes democrat, presumably. An increasingly rare species.
i dont really have much preference for any of the players in this clusterfuck. they are both as bad as each other, as corrupt as each other, as dishonest as each other and as greedy as each other.
you think that a thaksin led government is better than a suthep led one, dont be a fool, they are both self serving and corrupt, which is why i would like to see thaksins lot kicked out, but wanting the PT out doesnt mean wanting the dems in.
neither of them are fit for purpose.
whats the answer? in thailand the answer seems to be to sweep it all under the carpet, fight it out and carry on as before. sensible right thinking thais keep out of politics, politics is for jungle animals here.
their pride and unwillingness to accept defeat leaves them unable to embrace a decision reached by democratic process, if the dems won the reds would behave in exactly the same way as sutheps mobs. a year or so after an election they would also be on the streets whinging about some obscure law that had been broken, some grievance and demanding impeachments and resignations and causing havoc until they got their own way.
thats thailand. and it will need a revolution to change it for the better.
i think it will soon happen though, within the next 5 years. until then, keep sweeping.