and the notion somehow that you can take shortcuts and avoid democracy and that that somehow is going be to be the mechanism whereby you deliver economic growth i think is absolutely false, i think over time when you look at the most prosperous nations on this earth, they are the ones in which every individual, every citizen feels like if they put in the effort, if they a're working hard that those efforts bear fruit. that a government respects them and observes rule of law and doesn't take their property without due process and they don't have to pay a bribe to start a business or get a telephone installed. and you know, it's worked for us for over 200 years now. i think it's going to work for thailand, it's going to work for this entire region and the the alternative, i think, is a