IT IS NOT IN THE NATURE OF THE FILIPINOS TO SEE THE BIGGER
PICTURE - THE REASON WHY THEY ARE A HAPPY PEOPLE. THEY ARE HAPPY WITH WHAT
LITTLE THINGS THEY HAVE. THEY HAVE NO TIME TO WORRY IF THE SKY IS FALLING.
ROXAS –the low rating phenomenon
When P-Noy crossed swords with the country’s TOP POLITICAL
DYNASTIES with immense political base - GMA, Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada, Bong Revilla, the Binays and the
Marcoses, ROXAS lost a bulk of the people’s support.
In the BIR’s eagerness to raise money – it started to tax
OFW’s balikbayan boxes and charged terminal fees to departing OFWs which had
been free in the last 19 years; Roxas again took a beating for the popular
vote. P-Noy should have let go of the BIR chief.
…and then came the traffic and MRT’s daily break downs, the
“tanim/laglag bala” at the airport not to mention “Yolanda” and the “El Nino.”
P-Noy focused on bigger things like infrastructures and the
economy but pay little attention so it seems to the smaller things that matters
most to people. Not even superman can solve this country’s problems but Filipinos
love their superhero and they see it in the person of DUTERTE – CAPTAIN BARBEL
of our time.
Like Duterte; P-Noy was a populist president but somewhere
along the line – he seemed to have lost his ‘connect’ with the people. He
projected himself as more of a doer than a talker but in politics – talkers get
more votes than doers. You cannot talk about GDP and the STOCK MARKET as a
measure of your presidency when 99% of the people do not understand what you
are talking about. They could better understand “P_tang’_na” and “Papatayin ko
sila.”
In the eagerness of P-Noy to do the right and bigger things;
ROXAS became his single and biggest casualty. Roxas by all measure is the most
qualified among the candidates but in a country where 90% of the people have to
live in crime infested terrain, do not know how to wear neckties and do not
drive around in fancy cars; they would rather go for Dolphy’s version of Captain
Barbel just for the laugh and Du30 it is. Can Captain Barbel delivers on his
promises…? The answer is a big no. In Davao; he was above the law so he killed
with impunity. In Malacanang – he is not above the law. He made so many
powerful enemies that a small mistake and he will be impeached. In Davao where
he is the king; there is no congress and there is no supreme court to clip his
wings. If he is a man of his word; he could leave office earlier than expected. Better
be a king of Davao than an emperor of 7,100 Island archipelagos.
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