I have never unfriended anyone here in Facebook, not even one. The small numbers “friends” I have here, whatever that means. I know some people who have unfriended me and that’s understandable. I can’t blame them. I follow Mocha Uson and Duterte groups freely, Pro Marcos susbcriber also. I try to understand as much as my little brain can, so here’s my simple take on the upcoming 2022 election.
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The Duterte and Pro Marcos supporters should now realize that they have been fed propaganda after propaganda for years to come to hate the term “Dilawan ” and the false construct and meaning surrounding the word and the people associated with it. That the 1986 people power and the Aquinos are not at fault for our “situation” now but the 20 years of Marcos dictatorship rule when and where the very system of corruption, cronyism and injustice permeating across our government offices today may have been inculcated and perfected by habit and replication. And while the truth is that the EDSA revolution was only to stop the bleeding from the ills the Marcoses have caused and that it was only a relief.
There was no promise of paradise after 1986, there was only solace. You don’t expect a relatively young democracy like the Philippines, which was stunted by Guinness book world record breaking atrocities, to wake up the next day from a burnt destroyed house and expect a brand new sofa waiting for you to drown in happiness.
If you love some positivity, here’s some positivity. Let’s be friends. Let’s be friends and say we’re fine and that we have this democracy to enjoy. This young democracy that suffers from growing pains and experiences that leave us with new lessons on every turn. We have learned that corruption is prevalent and corruption is one of our greatest ordeals. We have learned to beware of lip service and of promises thrown around campaign periods and that many of them will remain without the appropriate deed. That there are red flags to look out for.
That sometimes a politician will sell himself as one with the people by perhaps posing to being a traffice enforcer. Take not that both you and this politician (Mar Roxas) are aware that it’s only pretend. The more subtle kind comes when only the politician alone is aware that he’s swindling you by making you believe that his dilapidated shoe was not deliberate (Rodrigo Duterte).
Small steps, but honest ones. Let’s stop demonizing integrity and decency. We cannot continue to undermine idealism and honesty. Is having an upright moral compass really a weakness? I’d rather see gradual progress than botched attempts of change, these instant gratifying hail mary passes that always inevitably towards autocracy.
Our nation’s timeline to greatness should not follow yours, nor mine, that’s for sure. It may take 50 years or even a hundred years for this brand of Pinoy democracy to develop into the first world nation we dream of (if such classifacations still holds water), and we can suck it up and just say that we tried while we were still alive.
We do not need to put our country at risk of falling behind everytime we feel the need for instant “radical change,” whatever and however you plan to do that.
You can rationalize with all the “Duterte is only a catalyst” for change, and BBM is a class act. But I think it’s all air, baseless and unfounded. Zero facts to prove it. An overhaul would be ideal, but if we sacrifice basic moral values and freedoms for such an attempt, it’s more likely that we’d only push our nation back even further every single time. We’ve already seen it with Duterte. Debatable for sure, but still -more likely a yes. “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely.” So be wary.
Progress has been derailed for decades by the Marcoses, but we are not totally hopeless. But many are cynical. If you are well off and feel that you belong to those who can make actual change, try civic engagement instead. Apathy and silence are signs of callousness. Bahala na kayo, okay lang ako, then be willing to later be complicits in electing another Duterte. Whatever worked for you in your successes , may have worked because it was you, but not with a presidency.
We have social media to blame for the propaganda and lies that we have yet to learn to discern and pick out (Is it fake, is it true) as a people, but it’s also our new avenue for civic engagement. To call out the corrupt and the wrongs committed by our dear public officials. That’s civic responsibility, and I know in the future it will be second in nature for Filipinos. It should be an automatic response, not something to dabble upon. We can never have enough of it. A corrupt system pestered by thieves definitely needs some calling out from the citizens, doesn’t it? It could use a lot of it, non stop, for decades.
Our governments are not yet run by drug cartels, at least not yet, and we have a more or less working justice system with police and military ready to defend and protect, with thousands of people trying really hard to work under the guidance of the constitution. There are criminal activities but there’s no anarchy.
If you believe we’re a hopeless country that’s fine. But then if we are indeed hopeless, then why should we reach out to the corrupt, the murderers and the unqualified? We cannot double down on our Duterte mistake. A president Duterte or a president Marcos next year will be a double whammy. A Duterte will continue the same cronyism and keep the power hungry Davao group hounding, while a Marcos will have revisionism as our top national priority, plus his own Gadon standard cronies, and that’s all of it. Winning the presidency was and is his only goal, all the unity talks is vapid sloganeering.
Why should we throw all progress, no matter how small, into the drainage, if we really cared? Like the jailing of top senators during Pnoy’s time because they were corrupt? It didn’t solve the whole problem, but it was a step forward. Why can’t we take a second look at that video or post that looked like propaganda? If it looks or sounds like one, it is, and they’re distorting the truth for you.
Small honest steps my friend. We don’t need any of your ultra draconian brilliant plan for a GREATER NEW PHILIPPINES, because most likley than not, it’s empty and a dud.
If this doesn’t make any sense, sorry na. Tao lang. Yes we can be friends, but can we vote wisely? And with that I mean don’t vote for a definite trapo like BBM or a Sara Duterte. The former with the zero track record except for his incessant denial of his father’s sins, his lies and most likely use of inherited stolen wealth to feed his propaganda machine, and the former as the continuation of this corrupt, vindictive and failed administration.
The Filth 