The next Thailand's PM

[condotown]

being truthful, honest and non corrupt-- all qualities in one politician, it sounds too good to be true.

It is too good to be true.

Goverments tend to prioritize like this in every geopolitical state:

1.) Help the rich people stay rich and acquire more.

2.) Make themselves, their families and close friends rich.

3.) Keep the middle and poor fighting with each other or distracted so they take no notice that they are being enslaved.

4.) Use a small amount of money on infrastructure or public projects and take credit for the "improvements".

5.) Kill or imprison dissenters or downplay their words and actions as nonsense or disruptive to the smooth running of the state.

Beyond that, I haven't seen any government do much.

[vacanti373]

Someone posted the defination of government...and the defination means zero compared to reality.

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Low level workers in the chain of command might be honest, but the farther you work your way up the political ladder, the more corrupt it is.

That goes for every country.

Democracy, Communism...bla bla bla....just words...they mean jack shi*t!

[breakofdawning]

After a long pause. someone dig this thread up again. Interesting.

Now Thaksin is out of the picture (for the moment at least) in term of becoming the PM again. No matter how much I like Abhisit, I think the chance that he would be the PM is still very slim. He's a great guy and more than qualified for the position, yet there are more than the qualification and education that will gain the vote from Thai people.

Thai people love charismatic and presentable character. Thaksin can be a very good example, he's so hollow in the core but looks extremely presentable on the surface, and Thai people by it instantly.

For Abhisit, he has the look but he can't capture the heart of the majority of public with his words or presentation. A certain group of people will admire him because of his qualification and eloquent speech, but not the majority.

It would be a tough job for him if he wins the election though, with the current world's economy and sounthern unrest and such... i'ts gonna be quite a challenging task for him to take up.

[duanja]

I want to hear a social policy of each party first. I want more welfare, social security network for all thai citizens. Whoever shall become PM is secondary to me.

As the Democrats Party attacked the 30 Baht Universal Health Care for all its lifetime of being an opponent party, I do not think the majority was impressed by it.

However, the Democrats has always been popular in the south. So I think Democrats will have a high opportunity to form a mixed parties-government in case that its nemesis is disenfranchised during the election.