"Morality" and Thai politics

There are many disscussions about 'morality' and Thai politics today. I have watched Chu-Pitch TV in Prachatai.com the other day, Ajarn Pitch talked about the role of morality and Thai politics.

Ajarn Pitch focused on morality(Sin-la-tham) in democracy. He says that democracy is the system to manage 'selfishness' of the people(I agree with this Hobbsian approache) and to tell whether there is any morality in domocracy, we have to see how much can the elected represent the need of the people. He concluded that, in this regard, it is possible only to see morality 'inside' or 'outside' politics.

Morality in Buddhist notion will not be discussed in this context.

Just like Ajarn Somsak's article on the lastest Matichon Weekly about Pridi's project to legalize and set up casinos at Thai's border in 1938. Because the state had demolished some kind of tax, which would cost a big loss. Therefore, Pridi decided to build casinos to generate income for the state.

Ajarn Somsak also argue that talking about morality in Buddhist notion in present context is not pragmatic.

Nowadays, so many people are talking about morality(Buddhist notion) in politics. Which is a very subjective topic to find the ground.

Let's stick to something touchable.