Two months ago, the protest against the blanket amnesty bill was a thing of beauty.
It was democracy in action where the people showed the Pheu Thai-led government that their voice mattered, even if it was the voice of the minority.
The minority took on Thailand's most potent political machine, headed by Thaksin Shinawatra, and forced his sister, prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, to shelve the bill that would have granted an amnesty to her brother.