Thread: Lesser of two evils

Originally Posted by TizMe

Originally Posted by Panda

Whats the best way to turn a yellow shirt red?

Blood will do the trick.

OMG! That's a horrible thought. Don't say you mean people should throw blood at the yellow shirts?

I just saw on another thread that an ABAC poll found that 58.4 per cent of Thai's said they will not take sides in politics. I think that there are many posters on this site who are also fed up with both sides and don't have a preference for either. It would be interesting to see an amended poll to take this into consideration and see the result.

Originally Posted by Texpat

Hold regular elections, based on a solid constitution

A solid constitution with a clear and unambiguous separation of powers would do the trick. I believe it will come but not quite yet.

Yellow, the colour of PAD & a rather well-noted personality...

Originally Posted by BKKBoet

I just saw on another thread that an ABAC poll found that 58.4 per cent of Thai's said they will not take sides in politics. I think that there are many posters on this site who are also fed up with both sides and don't have a preference for either. It would be interesting to see an amended poll to take this into consideration and see the result.

Thai polls are notoriously inaccurate and also very often politically biased.
Very few polls, if any, canvass the majority of the population outside the areas close to Bangkok.

Originally Posted by Panda

Originally Posted by BKKBoet

I just saw on another thread that an ABAC poll found that 58.4 per cent of Thai's said they will not take sides in politics. I think that there are many posters on this site who are also fed up with both sides and don't have a preference for either. It would be interesting to see an amended poll to take this into consideration and see the result.

Thai polls are notoriously inaccurate and also very often politically biased.
Very few polls, if any, canvass the majority of the population outside the areas close to Bangkok.

Be that as it may, it would be interesting to see a vote on this site that included this option.

Originally Posted by pickel

Originally Posted by keda

and next Friday the country will be awash with yellow

I wouldn't count on that for the north and north-east.

I hope you're right, and I would feel there is hope yet for the country, but while we have few 'elite' out here the place is filled with sheep.

Originally Posted by Panda

Originally Posted by TizMe

Originally Posted by Panda

Whats the best way to turn a yellow shirt red?

Blood will do the trick.

OMG! That's a horrible thought. Don't say you mean people should throw blood at the yellow shirts?

I think he meant release, as in machete, not throw.

^ I'm just so naive I guess.

Red simply down to the democratic process of them being twice elected

Originally Posted by Texpat

I'm solidly red.

I respect the law of the land and the voters elected the red team. Twice.

Oddly enough, and sadly in a Woody Allen-esque way, I agree with texpat verbatim.


Spot on, what more can you say? The 'reds' were voted into power twice. They were thrown out contrary to the people's wishes and are on the brink of the same thing again.

Those who do not respect the wishes of the majority of the population will eventually be taken to task for it.

Originally Posted by BKKBoet

It would be interesting to see an amended poll to take this into consideration and see the result.

I didn't put that option in there cause it would have made it the most boring poll in the world where everyone selects the neither option and then everyone slaps each other on the back, congratulates themselves on how much more intelligent they are than the protesters and it becomes ajarny. My interest here is in which way posters would go given only the two choices.

It's a complex issue, but to simplify it I see it as Yellow - anti-corruption/anti democracy Red inherently corrupt/pro democracy. I'd think of a vote for yellow as being for anti-corruption, a vote for red as being pro-democracy. Which is more important?

^ The yellows are only anti-corruption when it suits their political purposes, so it comes down to a choice between democracy or an oligarchy.

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by Texpat

I'm solidly red.

I respect the law of the land and the voters elected the red team. Twice.

Oddly enough, and sadly in a Woody Allen-esque way, I agree with texpat verbatim.


Spot on, what more can you say? The 'reds' were voted into power twice. They were thrown out contrary to the people's wishes and are on the brink of the same thing again.

Those who do not respect the wishes of the majority of the population will eventually be taken to task for it.

I hope you're right but it won't be sweet...as many have said freedom from tyranny doesn't come cheap, easy, or clean.

Originally Posted by Panda

^ The yellows are only anti-corruption when it suits their political purposes, so it comes down to a choice between democracy or an oligarchy.

Both points spot on, but isn't that what this is all about, with lots of empty space between? One side wants their pretend democracy back, while the other openly demands an oligarchy as its starting point. Then, how many steps from oligarchy to absolute monarchy? - fewer than from a pretend democracy, right?

If PAD get their way the corrupt practices they appear keen to eliminate will soar, because that's the nature of the beast, and it is not unthinkable for them to also give their detractors a victory something to consider before kicking off against the (now) legal gov.

Lead in the right ears.

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Originally Posted by BKKBoet

and it becomes ajarny.

We wouldn't want that!