re: "Respect for Prem" (PostBag, May 30)
Dear editor,
In his letter "Respect for Prem" (PostBag, May 30), HHB asks us to imagine a possibility that might have been. He then misses the actuality that has been made real.
The legacy of influential political players is the nation that they leave in their wake. Thailand today could have been a healthy, functioning democracy that dealt vigilantly with the usual problems of corruption, nepotism, legalized injustice, and other abuses that are a permanent threat to every democracy, and which abuses are far worse under undemocratic systems, as both local and foreign history attests. That wonderful possibility unrealized would have greatly benefited the Thai nation.
The legacy of Thailand's decades long lines of unelected political players is recorded in the headlines yesterday, today and likely tomorrow: coups, division, cobras, corruption, injustice, inequality and all the rest. The actuality on the street seems not quite so wonderfully gilt as the imagined.
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 1, 2019, under the title "Cobras and coups" at https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/postbag/1687516/raise-palm-prices
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