Making matters worse, voters on both sides are tuning in only to views with which they agree, rather than attempting to understand and reconcile opposing arguments. Social media – the much-lauded catalyst of democratization in authoritarian countries – has exacerbated the trend toward polarization in Thailand, just as it has in other electoral democracies that are struggling with a widening majority-minority divide, like Turkey and Malaysia.
更糟糕的是，两边的选民眼里都只有自己所认可的观点，而不是试图理解和调和反对观点。社会媒体——常常被歌颂为独裁国家中的民主催化剂——助长了这一将泰国向两极分化推进的趋势，一如它们在其他多数-少数分歧愈演愈烈的选举民主国家所扮演的角色（比如土耳其和马来西亚）。