re: "Don't knock the polls" (Postbag, BP, October 8)
Dear editor,
The recent series of letters by Jack Gilead and others arguing whether polls accurately reflect the PM's popularity misses the more important point: however popular he might truly be, even if he has the same truly massive popularity as North Korea's ever smiling dictator, that cannot alter the fact that he remains not a man elected to govern the Thai people by the Thai people according to the will of the Thai people under the good morals of democratic principle.
He is truly popular? Quite possibly! That signifies nothing of worth, certainly nothing equivalent to sound democratic credentials or good morals, neither of which are entailed by doing incredibly well in a popularity contest under a rule of law characterized by censorship and intimidation that has forced respected academics into exile, and that has imprisoned such exemplary Thai citizens as the international award winning Jatupat Boonpatararaksa (Pai Dao Din) in strict accord with the rule of law made up for such purposes.
If popularity in polls were a reliable indicator of moral stature, that would make both Thaksin and Yingluck paragon's of excellence, something that I would have trouble conceding, although they do at least have the virtue of having been elected by the formerly free Thai people to govern the Thai nation, and unlike a popularity poll, that is of some worth deserving respect.
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 October 10, 2017, under the title "Not the people's pick" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1339883/not-the-peoples-pick
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