More than almost any other political crisis on the face of the earth today — more than in Russia, Ukraine and Crimea; even more, in a way, than in dreadfully miserable Syria — it is the crisis in Thailand that seems so sad.
Because this tragedy need not have happened — not at all.
Very many people live in the shadow of unelected governments that they dislike, or even under elected governments for which they did not vote and perhaps even despise. But in this world (and quite possibly even in the next) rarely does one get everything he or she politically wants, certainly not all the time and maybe not even often.