Modern Vicious Cycle

In Thailand, police are having to deal with thousands of protestors who  overran the capital and  cut power to the Finance Ministry according to USA TODAY. The protestors are taking action against the government and are trying to  oust the the Prime Minister Yingluck  Shinawatra, claiming that they want to force civil servants to stop working, crippling the government. The Thailand government is calling the movement a coup, the protesters are saying that Yingluck is allowing his brother to run the government, even though the brother was convicted of corruption charges. This sad, political turmoil is just another example of the vicious cycle. Yingluck's brother,  Thaksni Shinawatra, was in charge until 2008 when the military forcibly removed him. However, instead of things getting, better, they remained bad in Thailand, with a brother of the removed leader taking charge in the so called democracy. The situation can be linked to that of Guatemala in Why Nations Fail, where leaders who were removed were just continuously replaced by family members, with the same original families remaining in charge from the colonial period into fairly modern history. As Thailand shows, the vicious cycle is alive and thriving.