Cogs can think.

And so it happened that the Thai armed forces commited a military coup, in order to remove the current corrupt government and its hated prime-minister, who was out of the country during the events. The generals leading the coup have stated clearly that they do not wish to govern the country; they have talked to the Thai king Bhumibol Adulyadej and assured the people an interim government will lead the country to elections next year. The coup went by without a single gunshot and is completely peaceful.

Assuming they indeed mean no harm, I’m all for this course of events. The Thai PM was hated, and his government extremely corrupt. So, taking him out of office seems like a reasonable course of action. Democracy is simply not suited for the removal of failing leaders; hence someone else needs to do it. If they would not have done it, the PM could’ve destroyed the entire economy and country.

I would expect the same from the Dutch armed forces if The Netherlands ever came into a similar situation. Democracy has its faults, and one of them is that bad people can come to power fairly easily (Adolf Hitler came to power via completely legal and democratic means), by playing the people. And no offence, but the people are mindless (and yes, the people includes myself), and easily manipulated. We are dumb, and in essense incapable of deciding over matters of State (hence I am against referenda) (hence I am for transferring slightly more power to the Crown).

Of course The Netherlands has an extra theoretical safeguard (the Crown), but failing that, I expect our military to come into action to remove a very, very failing government.