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"A Rare Chance to Reshape Thailand's Political Future"?

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I thought about titling this video, I have been wanting to make this video for a little while. I didn't want to make it too close in time to the election itself, but I didn't want to make it so far out that it wasn't particularly topical. I've had people asking me what I think of the upcoming election - folks know I'm Thai - and people have asked who I'm going to vote for. I really don't like getting into that, but I think it's someone obvious where my proclivities are sort of within the Thai political spectrum. But I thought about calling this video, "What I would like to See From This Election." And the answer to that title was going to be exactly what I'll say now, which is I just want to see the election, more than anything. And it's the first time in my opinion that the electorate here is not under a tremendous amount of pressure from any sector particularly. I'm really optimistic actually about this election and the outcome, whatever it is, because I think finally Thailand, Thais, are going to be able to have an election and really make a choice on what they really want, what we really want as a country. 

Now that decision may be very fragmented. We may end up with another interesting Coalition again. I don't know. I don't know what the answer to any of this is going to be; it remains to be seen until actually we see election day. But I think it's important to point out the fact that one of the biggest problems I saw in the aftermath of August of '23 with the formation of the Coalition and the new Parliament is they immediately came out of the gate with his Digital Wallet and all kinds of things that were primarily World Economic Forum, WEF inspired notions. I noticed that and I didn't make a video specifically on this topic because I feel like frankly Carney and Lutnick, and I did a video on this, their description of what recently happened at Davos I think pretty well sums it up, which is this "old order" is ending. 

I think for whatever reason and look, politicians are politicians, they're not really on the cutting edge as much as they want to pretend to be on the cutting edge. It's oftentimes an exercise, as they say in military tactics and strategy, ‘fighting the last war’. I just saw something where Anutin - there was a delegation sent I think the current caretaker Finance Minister attended the World Economic Forum and then I saw that there were recent announcements that pledges up to $500 billion dollars in direct investment to Thailand has come from this. Well pledges are one thing; I want to see the money. I read another article recently where they were talking about the fact that nearly another 500 billion or a maybe it was 50 billion, in foreign direct investment is currently all tied up and it's not coming to Thailand, but it's been pledged and blah blah. That's the M.O. of the WEF. It's a lot of talk and then anytime you want to do anything, or get some money or something, nothing ever seems to show up. But by God, they'll get you into eating bugs and owning nothing to being happy. The point I'm trying to make here is, what I want to see out of this election is Thailand make a decision without a bunch of foreign undue influence, and quite honestly, what came out of, I won't get into Parties and things, but what came out of the aftermath of August of '23 was in my opinion a pretty prolonged period of time of Thailand having to fend off a lot of this undue influence. So my hope with this election is that we see Thailand make her own decision and go her own way. I want Thailand to do what is right for Thailand; I’m tired of all this globalist nonsense. 

The other thing is frankly, we got to miss a lot of this; we dodged a bullet in a lot of this. As I discussed in other videos, say what you will about the military government, but for roughly nine and a half years, there was no interaction with the World Economic Forum with Thailand. That was a pretty good thing in my opinion, and I think it put Thailand in a pretty good position. 

That said, I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Bangkok Post, bangkokpost.comAnutin unfazed by talk of late push by People's Party (PP). Again I'm not getting partisan; I don't really care what people think of any particular Party here. That said, I think it's important to point out, I think that the final paragraph in this article - and I urge those who are watching this video, go check it out for yourself - but there's an interesting notion here. Quoting directly: "Mr. Pita, former leader of the now defunct Move Forward Party and predecessor of the People’s Party, appeared as a campaign aid on Sunday urging undecided and habitual non-voters to turn out as the PP seeks to mobilize millions of previously disengaged voters in what he called a rare chance to reshape Thailand's political future." Yeah, I mean look, agree with Mr. Pita, disagree, whatever you think politically, again I'm not getting into the partisan aspects of all of this, I also think that there seems to be on the part of the Bangkok Post, sort of an impetus to under sort of estimate it seems like, Bhumjaithai and then kind of overestimate, not so much People's Party, I think there's some real momentum there, but especially Pheu Thai; it's like this last year didn't happen. It’s kind of an odd way of covering things. That said, the point I am trying to make is "a rare chance to reshape Thailand's political future." Now again, whether or not you agree with Mr. Pita or his former Party, and now the sort of legacy Party if you will of that, People's Party, this election is very important in Thailand if for no other reason than we are finally going to see, in a very unfettered way, sort of without filter what it is Thais want and I'm open to it. I'm very open to it, whatever that may be. It might not necessarily be something I necessarily agree with, but I think for the first time in a long time, we are really going to get a feel for what Thailand wants, and we are going to get on down the road accordingly.