ความลับของนายกทักษิณ: ก่อนจะมาเป็นชัยชนะวันที่ 6 กุมภา

Before the election, I saw tons of harsh verbal exchange between Thaksin-supporters and the Non-Taksin camp through this website.

And in most occasions, the exchange ended when Anti-Thaksin dudes claimed

“Let’s wait until Feb 6 to see what happen”

I don’t understand how can they made such a provocative, careless challenge. Not only they saw Thai-rak-Thai got more members of Parliament (MPs) than last time, but also what Thai-rak-Thai achieved on Feb 6 was historic: the party’s victory in this election has been the most impressive in the history of the modern Thai politics in every measurable standard. This has been the most decisive victory in the history of Thailand.

I have seen in this website and have talked to lots of people who ‘hate’ Khun Thaksin and they all have the same question:

How can a corrupt, suspicious-looking, former government-contract businessman manage to win, not only one, but TWO impressive elections? In fact, I am curious as well. How can Khun Thaksin, a man with myriads of ‘conflicts of interest’, can gain the kind of supports from Thai people that no one else have never done.

Because of money and unchecked power?

If so, how can Thai-Rak-Thai won 32 out of the 37 seats in “Bangkok”, or 86% of all MPS. Remember in the recent history, this is the ‘second’ most decisive win.

(The most impressive win in Bangkok has been that by Palang-Tham Party when they got all MP, except one. And that only one survivor from that Palang-Tham’s strike, Khun Apisit Vejashewa, is about to take over as the seventh Democrats’ leader)

If this win in Bangkok is due to money and authoritarian influence, why Khun Apirak managed to win the governor of Bangkok’s election held shortly before. Are money and abused power supposed to allow Thai-rak-Thai (khun Paveena) to win Bangkok Governor’s election as well?

And with unchecked power, why Dr Thaksin could not prevent Khun Karun Ho-Sa-Kul from being disqualified from the past election. How has he been beaten up by academics and self-proclaimed experts every day?

Is a dictator supposed to do everything he can? Is a dictator who own Thailand supposed to have an easier life, isn’t it?

The answer is more complicated than that.

Remember that in a society, each person all has different opinions about how we should manage the society. We cannot simply allow all people to manage the society since there would then be millions ideas sitting on the table and that will be a chaos.

That is what the ‘representative’ democratic system is all about. We choose our representative to manage our country. And the ‘preference’ of the majority of people gets implemented.

The question is then how people should choose their representative (Prime Minister).

In most modern, developed democratic society, the criteria that people use the most is to choose a person that is most likely to PERFORM well in managing the country. That person is not necessarily to have “fewest conflicts of interest” And it is not necessary for them to choose people who ‘look the cleanest’ or have “personality” that they like.

All that they care the most is how well the person will work (as a Prime Minister).

This is exactly what happened in the US during the Clinton era. Bill and Hilary Clinton had a scandal about corruption in their business projects. Despite this conflict of interest, American people still voted for Clinton. A majority of Americans feel that Clinton is good for the economy (even Bill somewhat looks ‘less clean’ than other candidates). They looked at Clinton’s good track record and decided that this is the guy that we are confident that he will do a better job in managing our country.

In the last election in Thailand, there are roughly two primary groups of voters, with two completely different preferences. The first group, non-Thaksin camp, did not vote for Khun Thaksin, primarily because they think that Khun Thaksin looks suspicious and corrupt. They think Khun Thaksin has lots of conflicts of interest so if in office khun Thaksin will definitely corrupt.

However, since Khun Thaksin is no longer a new face in town and has already been in office for four years, can this group of people give just one example of a large-scale corruption that has ‘already committed’ by Khun Thaksin in the past four years.

Asking just one ‘already commited’ large-scale corruption by Khun Thaksin in the first term.

This Non-Thaksin camp often claimed themselves as the ‘educated’ but their behaviors show something different.

They are afraid that Thaksin if elected will be corrupt (which hasn’t been true) and thus they choose Democrats. Here is the fact:


****** ALL THAI POLITICAL PARTIES ARE CORRUPT *******


Democrats have involved in two most notorious corruption scandals in the recent history of Thai politics.

First is by Khun Sanan, in the case of Kitti’s forrest garden and others (and later Khun Sanan was found guilty by the constitutional court because of his corruption money)

Second, is the corruption in the land reform, engineered by Khun Suthep, who will become the next Democrats’secretary. And from the corruption scandal, the Democrat administration was filed no-confidence vote, resulting in Khun Chuan losing his first-term premiership, remember?

Now these are examples of ‘large-scale’ corruption “already committed” by Democrats. Can anyone give similar examples of those already committed by Khun Thaksin.

Democrats’ strategy is wise. They will always put a guy with clean imagine as the leader (such as Khun Chuan). This guy does not have to involve in corruption. And they let all other guys to corrupt.

Only those Anti-Thaksin, who again often claim themselves to be “educated” are gullible enough to fall into this scheme. It is this such educated Anti-Thaksin who hate corruption and refuse to vote for Thaksin, who hasn’t commited to any large-scale corruption, just simply to vote for Democrats who have a long list of corruption case ??!?

It is this group of ‘educated’ Non-Thaksin who when considering choosing a person to work them, not choosing based on how well the performance of that person on the job is likely to be, but instead based on the ‘imagine’ or ‘personality’ of the person.

‘Educated’ people who prefer ‘image’ and ‘style’ over ‘substance’.

Luckily for Thailand, this ‘educated’ Non-Thaksin is a minority group in this country. That’s why Dr Thaksin become the first man in history of Thailand who won elections with decisive victories ‘twice in a row’.

As far as I have seen, those ‘stupid’, ‘uneducated’ majority of Thailand, when deciding who they will vote for, they look at



Thai-Rak-Thai : have lots of conflicts of interest, and likely to be corrupt (but haven’t seen any already committed large-scale corruption in the past four years)

BUT then, all other parties, including Democrats, are also corrupt anyway.


And


Democrats:
Had already been the government for two terms, about 6 years, but very poor performance on administrating this country.



Thai-rak-Thai:
Has been in power in the last four years, good performance; new polices to improve the standard of living; and our country obviously has done quite well indeed.



Based on this reasoning, that’s why these UNEDUCATED people voted for Thai-Rak-Thai in the past election.

Personally, I am happy that the country has these uneducated people (including myself) as a majority.


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I am working in the US right now, but I happened to be in Thailand before Fed 6.

One day, I got very bored so I started walking along the street in Bangkok. I was doing my ‘personal poll’, asking people around who they would vote for in this incoming Fed 6.

On one occasion, I saw a granny who sold noodle soup along the street. Apparently, the granny should have a minimum education; something like grade 4.

So I asked “Hi Granny, who will you vote for in this election?”

The granny replied:

“เลือกคนทำงานค่ะ”

I was stunned. She didn’t even mention the names. By the end of that day, I knew that on this Fed 6 it would be a landslide.

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I am very worried about those Anti-Thaksin. I know that it must be hard for you to feel peaceful when someone you don’t like is still our Prime Minister. That is why you should mobilize others to hate Thaksin too. But remember time goes by so fast. When his next term ends in the next four years, if your guys still not be able to convince others who voted for him last time to switch, Thaksin (or another Thai-rak-Thai person) will be the prime minister in other 4 years.

And now you will have a pain in your heart, not in the next four years, but EIGHT years.

Here is a tip.

So far, those Anti-Thaksin and Democrats always use verbal assaults as their primary strategy; they charge that Thaksin is corrupt and destroy Thailand. That will never work, you know.

Why?

Anti-Thaksin camp and the Democratic Party have done something like this; have ‘painted’ Thaksin as a corrupt person for four years now, even before he became Prime Minister for the first term, remember?

Ironically, the more Anti-Thaksin camp and Democrats launched verbal attackes and charged him as a corrupt person, the more Thai people accept him as a good prime minister. That can be seen from his popular votes that increased from four years ago.

Besides, Thai people are kind. They don’t like to see one person get beaten up by all other unfairly everyday. Precisely in Thai:

คนไทยขี้สงสาร ไม่ชอบเห็นใครถูกรุ่มด่าอยู่ข้างเดียว เหมือนคนถูกหมาหมู่รุ่มกัด

That was precisely what happened in the last election.

Remember, time is running out. If you cannot find a way to get rid of him, you will have Thaksin as your Prime Minister for the next eight years.

This warning is applied especially for Khun Abhisit Vejachiwa. I don’t want our grandchildren to remember you as the longest opposition leader in the history of Thailand.