Make love, not Reconciliation | Bangkok Post: opinion

National reconciliation. Do we need it? Should we want it? Will it be better for Thailand? In my humble opinion, the answers are no, no and no. And when I preface a sentence with ''in my humble opinion'', rest assured that there's nothing humble about it.

Why reconcile? Conflict is a natural condition of any developed democracy. A society that thinks the same and acts the same is one that is conducive to authoritarianism. Dissension, ladies and gentlemen, is the hallmark of democracy.

In the United States, the Democrats have the Republicans. In the United Kingdom, the Labour Party has the Tories. They don't reconcile. They shouldn't reconcile. Reconciling wouldn't do their democracies any good.