Brainwashing

The Pattaya Mail reports that the junta’s tool, the Election Commission and the royalist Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation – none of which is does well – have “launched a new campaign for university students, encouraging them to render active participation as good citizens in a democratic society.”

It sounds like something for primary or elementary school students, but, no, this is paternalism for university students.

The two agencies “announced a campaign run under the cooperation between the Election Commission (EC) and the Ministry of Higher Education to promote a correct mindset towards the constitutional monarchy.”

How high?

A “correct mindset” means blind devotion to the monarch. The campaign focuses on “students from 38 Rajabhat Universities across the country…”.

The real aim is to manipulate “young leaders by instilling good citizenship and active democratic participation in the students.” That terminology is buffalo manure. The idea is to brainwash students with ridiculous monarchism.

The campaign is a response to the popular student movement to reform the monarchy. Like military regimes of the past, the current lot thinks that monarchist propaganda will change minds.

We are pretty sure that that time has passed. Dinosaurs with Cold War ideas no longer have much traction among young people.