I'm impressed with the opposition parties in Thailand right now.

Quick background: PM Shinawatra has been consistently accused of mass corruption by the opposition and his own party at times, and called for a snap election three years early, in an attempt to put concerns to rest that he still had a mandate to lead. Voting is mandatory in Thailand, and you can get arrested for not doing it. Opposition parties believe the election is bullshit, and so they wanted everyone to check the 'no vote' box in a show of support. Given that there are multiple 'opposition' parties in Thailand, this consolidates their votes into one big 'fuck you' for Shinawatra.

The election's not over yet, but the 'no votes' already exceed Thai Rak Thai votes in almost all of the reporting districts, save rural areas, which support TRT because of a farmer's benefits program. Rural communities worry that the opposition parties would cut funding and deprive them of their livelihood.

But I think it's impressive. Instead of just bitching endlessly about how pathetic of a job their leader was doing, they stood up and fucking did something about it. This is one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience on a political scale that I've ever seen, save the occasional mass labor riot (or whatever riot is happening in Paris lately).

Shinawatra may retain office, but he's pretty much a lame duck already. Thailand has the advantage of not being, you know, not having a fucking crazy government like Myanmar (Burma) does. The citizens there don't HAVE to take shit from their government, because some of their soldiers might take the opposition's side in the case of a fight, and people aren't as poor in Thailand as in neighboring countries.

America, as a comparison, has some of the richest people in the world. For all the people that sit around and complain, we certainly don't do shit to stop the things we see going on around us. Faith-based charities get federal funding, creationism is up for debate as a fucking science, and we're in the middle of a war that's impossible to win because we'll never realize that the enemy's not another army like we have. But what happens? We let Bush win a fucking election legitimately, because the 'opposition' here are a bunch of limp-wristed whiny pricks who couldn't stand up if they had electrodes surreptitiously attached to their asses on the Senate bench.

Left-wing pussyism will not win us the war on ideology. If we really want change, then we must agitate, we must fight, even if it means sacrificing things we hold dear, like the right to vote. Shinawatra will be left with no choice but to resign, or face absolute civil disobedience for the remainder of his legal term. Bush will face no real opposition for... well, forever, because nobody will really stand up.

Dick Durbin tried it, but comparing an AMURRKIN to a COMMUNIST like Stalin, or a NAHTZEE like Hitler is UNAMURRKIN! His liberal pussyist bretheren refused to stand behind him, and he was fed to the neo-con dogs, who proceeded to tear him to shreds. He could have pulled the lid off of the whole fucking prison abuse problem, and instead the fucking Democrats took the side of the mouth-breathers, and it's still going on, and will be, because that's another one of those issues that the people with access to the damning evidence refuse to ever touch.

We should take a lesson from Thailand. It's okay to say 'fuck you, and fuck your system, until you act in a way that's agreeable to the other people in this country, not just people who completely agree with you, we're going to piss in your fucking Wheaties until you give in'. We don't have to take bullshit lying down, but first, we have to distance ourselves from the worthless sacks of shit that call themselves opposition.

The system doesn't work. Fighting, even without lifting a finger, is the only way to real freedom.