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Democrats’ dirty deeds turned me off big time

Democrats’ dirty deeds turned me off big time

The excuse that’s always given for the coup was the claim that Thailand was on the verge of a civil war. But let’s go over a little history. I think it’s safe to say that Ms Yingluck’s support of the amnesty bill lead to her downfall. Many people includin

So, didn’t that prove that democracy works? But the Democrats saw this as an opportunity to try to achieve power through force because they couldn’t do so at the ballot box. And that’s what lead to the violence.
I was once sympathetic to the Democrats. But when I saw the way they used lese majeste to create a reign of terror, exploit the opposition to the amnesty bill to make a grab for power and refer to their own poor people as “dirty” and “ignorant”, I realised I was on the wrong side.
Eric Bahrt

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