PDRC protesters deluded

re: "Eight PDRC backers rejoin Democrats" (BP, May 31)

re: "Eight PDRC backers rejoin Democrats" (BP, May 31).

Dear editor,
It is no surprise that the "Hilariously Misnamed" (Time, November 28, 2013) Democrat Party would eagerly take back the eight who defected to more actively collude with the anti-democratic PDRC mobs led by Suthep. Under Abhisit's passively feeble "leadership" seeking to win power by any means, the Democrat Party even sank to colluding with the PDRC  and their other allies against democracy to thwart the election called in February 2014 to allow the Thai people to voice their preference as to how they wanted to be governed.

Democracy evolves by making mistakes and learning from them. No one would be so childish as to think that any democracy anywhere at any time has ever been perfect, but remains morally superior to every alternative. There has often been massive corruption in UK and US politics, but that never justified a coup. There have often been appallingly bad economic decisions made by democratically elected governments everywhere: they never justified a coup against the people. Nations have often been beset by civil disorder, which disorder does not justify a coup against the highest law in those nations. Thailand is no different. Sadly, the Thai people have been repeatedly denied the opportunity to learn from mistakes that help a society evolve as a healthy democracy must. Just when it looked as though progress was being made, when Yingluck's Pheu Thai gave up on their sleazy amnesty bill and then called an election, the rule of law and the good morals that found democracy were again trampled underfoot by those opposed to democracy.

Protests are a healthy element of a democratic and just society, but the PDRC was never sincere in its protests. If they were, they would have stopped after the amnesty bill was halted in response to the outraged voice of protest from the Thai people. The PDRC did no such thing, but continued to push blatantly for a coup to force their selfish agenda on the Thai people.  Let us hope that the gullible PDRC mobs who supported Suthep's immoral agenda against Thailand have learned from their mistakes, that they will not next time so easily be deluded by false excuses, by false promises, and by false ideals.

 Felix Qui

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The above letter to the editor is the text as submitted by Felix Qui to the Bangkok Post.

The text as edited was published in PostBag on June 4, 2017, under the title "PDRC protesters deluded" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1262219/troubled-waters

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Reference

• Campbell, C. (2013, November 8). Thailand’s Democrat Party Is Hilariously Misnamed. Time. Retrieved from http://world.time.com/2013/11/28/thailands-democrat-party-is-hilariously-misnamed/