What is happening in Thailand is also an opportunity for reflection for us in Italy.
Of course, to see them shoot him, it's easy to think that ultimately we are ahead, and there the things we left behind long ago.
But I notice many parallels that are worth analyzing.
We start trying to understand what happens in Thailand.
Among the various reasons for this crisis, perhaps the most crucial is quite simple: the difference between rich and poor is enormous.
So far nothing new nor Thailand, nor in most of the world.
The reason is the following half-democracy, a model of government with which it agrees to joke: if you say to people that is free to vote for their leaders that, in his ignorance, he believes as well.
A few years ago Taksin (the Berlusca of Asia) won the elections with the support of the poor.
After a couple of years, the Bangkok-rich (elite, kings, military) have been hunting with a coup. Continue reading »
