Writer was right but did avoid issues worth noting

Songdej Praditsmanont, I also read Khun Pornpimol’s article regarding American attitude towards Thailand. I found it to be remarkably accurate in America’s past transgressions, and although I agree with her that what is transpiring in Thailand is basically not America’s business, there was one thing that disturbed me about it. She managed to avoid the areas that are causing America to criticise Thailand’s present situation.
She also managed to not point out that in America’s over two hundred years of democracy there has never been a coup. There has only been one constitution with its core values intact. Amendments are added as time changes world dynamics, but its core value stays intact. Also, she might have pointed out that although America faced civil unrest during the 1960s that made the strife Thailand was experiencing look like a tea party, there was no coup and no new constitution.
Thailand has a constitution and there is no reason not to have elections. She failed to mention that also. But unfortunately, whoever is the actual power in Thailand wants a constitution that makes it possible for them to automatically remove any government that they deem unfit. In this manner, it will not be necessary to have any more coups.
So far we have seen no one go to jail for corruption and about all that has been accomplished is that the cigarette tax has been raised twice. There is now more tax on a pack of cigarettes than what it costs to manufacture them. This represents real democracy for about a third of the population of Thailand. But the thing that bothered me the most is that when the idea was brought up to make it mandatory for all lawmakers to be elected, it was rejected in one day. It seems that the wheels can turn quickly in Thailand depending on the subject matter at hand.
Khun Pornpimol was correct when she stated that freedom still reigns in Thailand and that things haven’t changed that much. They haven’t. But the problem is that they need to change. And they need to change for all Thai citizens, not just the select few that have dictated policy for decades. I don’t see that happening until electoral law is changed, so it is pointless for me to go on with this. I am simply trying to say that it is understandable for America to be concerned about what is transpiring in Thailand, but it is a little confusing why America never made any objections before now. What is occurring now has been occurring for decades. Why meddle now?
John Arnone