Crazy Idea on How To Fix Thailand's Flawed Democracy

I remembered distinctively in the Business Textbook that I studied ages ago that they used to mention this following quote very often:

The Customers are Always Right

The years I first heard about that quote, and until now, I learnt that the above quote is not the reality of the world we are facing, and a clear example on how outdated are the books that are used to teach us. Much like how there are some types of books like "Things They Don't Teach You at Havard Business School", "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" become popular, it is quite evident that a number of skills, philosophy, and know how in the business world is certainly different than what are taught in the books. One clear example is the quote I mentioned earlier. If I have to update the above quote, I'll write it as the following:

The Customers are Always Right if they haven't Bought our Product, but the Customers are at our mercy when they have.

As you notice the irony of that quote. Its a clear example of what we call a half truth, one that is very common in today's business world - the art of telling half-truths and white lies - and becomes more frequent once there is less competition in the market.

Talking about it, brings me back to the topic of slimey politicians in my country Thailand. The picture I posted above is taken outside my home. For a translation, it means that Mr. Yuranan (Sam), a famous movie star and deputy spokesperson and Candidate to the Din Daeng area of the Thai Rak Thai Party, has contacted the local district municipal to ask them to clear out the sewers in our area. A strange observation is that this has been done in a convienent time just a few months from the general elections.

On a similar occasion, the Government has arranged a freebie fair at the Impact Arena, where the fair was explain to have showcased the Government's initiative in solving the countries woes from the grassroot level to solve the nation's ill. This fair seem to be a large advertisement by the TRT party just a convinent throw away from the general elections that makes this fair suspicious. In this fair there was numerous freebies and benefits given to attendees such as registration for the various Ua-Arthon programs that the government has been pushing along with other freebies such as free eyeglasses, food, and drinks. Also transportation were free for students and people from other province to visit this fair in which a train of buses were seen ferrying to the fair where people claimed that they were paid by their local MP to attend the fair to get free stuff. To make matters worse, this fair was paid by the tax payer's money which I find very distasteful.

When pressed on this topic, government respresentatives claim that they are doing everything right to the constitution in which the government has the right to showcase their archivements to the people. They said that instead of sending the message accross traditionally through the parlimentary session, they said pushing it in fairs would be better as more people can learn about it in a fair setting. When pressed about the numerous freebies, the ruling party representatives claim that it was part of the government intiative for a while, and its nothing wrong to show it on the government show. Regarding using tax-payers money to arrange a fair that seems to be advertising TRT, the goverment claimed again that it was highlighting the archivements of the government - not a single party and it was not constitutionally wrong - but just done in a different means that older dinosaur goverments did not have the ability to conceive this idea.

Due to that reason, a number of academics and opposition politicians has called the EC(Election Commission) to look over how the goverment been legally buy votes by using loopholes in the constitution. The latest complaints comes hot in the heels of the questions about the various Ua-Arthon programs, the 1 million Cow project, the SML project, and other various initiatives that were declared this year where well-disguised popularist policies that were drafted to gained the votes of rural Thailand. However as I suspected, these complaint has been dropped so quickly that there were huge questions on how neutral the watchdog EC has been. We can see that many neutral watch-dogs and institutes whether the EC, NCCC, or the Senate has been increasing falling under the TRT influence and been rather skewed in its interpretation of laws that seems to always favor the ruling party and all its business kins.

Thinking about it, I was thinking about the variation of the quote I've posted earlier:

The Voters are Always Right before Elections, but are a no-one after it.

This it makes me wonder if the best way to solve the ills of this flawed democracy in which politicians engage in vote-buying, handouts, and popularistic policies just before each election when we are the voters and their boss, is to engage the elections just so frequently to the point that politicians can no longer keep up with the vote-buying, and being corrupt to get that much fund would then just be so balantly evident to the point they can easily get caught instead of siphoning funds from long-term policies!

It might sound crazy, but since Democracy the last few decades in Thailand is so morally corrupt, it just makes me wonder if it would turn to the better with these crazy ideas ;)