The Yellow-Green Party

Finally. What we doubters have all been longing for, will happen. Thailand’s political purists, standard bearers of their so-called new politics, will form an own party and dare to lower themselves into the lowlands of politics by going for political positions.

Thereby allowing themselves to retract earlier declarations of seeking no political position. “Slap my face with your shoes if one day I take any political position,” the yellows’ core leader and firebrand Sondhi Limthongkul once said. But founding the party is the fun part.

The PAD‘ political wing would be the first one in the world’s history of politics to sooner or later not become the victim of infighting and heresy. The human nature finally prevails in every human group, be it within the Vatican, in a volleyball club – or in politics. Hey, it’s just natural. Even more so in transient Thailand.

Our yellows, who are adding green to a combo to reflect newness, are promising the exact opposite of human nature. Accountable, honest, responsible governance under the leadership of almost-martyr Sondhi, originally a strong supporter of his later archrival Thaksin, who himself is not an unknown to scandals and bankruptcies.

See? Again. That tricky human element.

The new party will be dominated by alpha leaders whose ego will soon be put to many tests. Such as an election. Will they accept the will of the people. Or does it turn out that they indeed represent the silent majority. And the very basis of Thai politics: compromise.

The emergence of a yellow party is a good sign for Thailand. Outside the grid it was easy for the yellows to circumvent law and order under the pretext of some überimportant calling.

Now there will at least be some more checks – just to mention the disclosure of the party’s funding.




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May 25, 2009 | Filed Under On Our Own, Politics 

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7 Responses to “The Yellow-Green Party”

  1. KConsciousness on May 25th, 2009 11.34 am

    It’s now the “yellow and green” party …

    http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/17274/it-easy-being-green-says-pad

  2. BangkokDan on May 25th, 2009 11.39 am

    Added/adjusted, thanks KC.

    BangkokDan

  3. Chunkton on May 25th, 2009 6.39 pm

    Yeah it is just the same old, even if a party wants to do the right thing, human nature soon intervenes. They should have stayed out of it, at least many people trusted them in the guise of opposing corruption, government’s natural bedfellow.

  4. Pete, FrogBlogger on May 25th, 2009 6.44 pm

    We’re right out of primary colors, blue having been nabbed by a shady mob down in Pattaya, so what’s next? The katoeys will be forming the Pink Party soon. The Bargirls Alliance would have gone for their favorite red, but that’s already been purloined by those the elite consider to be the scourge of Thailand’s politics, so the bargirls have wisely chosen a fetching shade of scarlet so as not to upset the powers-that-be. Their motto in these difficult times is “short time at long time rates.” Unsurprisingly they haven’t won over many male voters yet. There was to be a purist Green Party based in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, but all the spokespeople died of asphyxiation before they could announce their program. Some farangs felt they should be allowed to speak up and point out where the Thais were going wrong, having practised denigrating the Thais for years over beers with bargirls nodding in agreement, but members of the Grey Party (matching the (natural) hair color of those that have got any left) were immediately bundled into the Bangkok Hilton for the usual imaginary offences.

    Back to square one, I suppose. Same old, same old (but different) …

  5. JJ on May 25th, 2009 6.54 pm

    Colors simplify a lot.

    No need to talk programs, strategies, values, goals.

    Just colors. Colorful colors.

    Everybody understands.

  6. Pete, FrogBlogger on May 25th, 2009 7.19 pm

    Perhaps we can get past the coloring book to the joining the dots stage soon?

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