Will democracy come to Thailand: The Yellow Shirts say, "No!."

Tensions rise in Thailand:  Rural people (red shirts) support the ruling Pheu Thai party, which has won five successive elections.  The urban elites have never accepted this and their Democrat Party (yellow shirts) are pushing for a judicial or violent overthrow of the red shirts.  Meanwhile, the red shirts are forming militias in the countryside.

Food prices are rising, as is discontent. Is civil war a possibility?  Yet another military coup?  The red shirt militias are a new element.  In the past, the military would simply ask the King for permission to stage a coup and no one would oppose them.