by Roger B Rueda
As elections are drawing close to, it is hard for us thinking voters to come to a decision on who to vote for as most of our runners in the national level (and even in the local level) have not been given a favourable circumstance to lay themselves open to the public as to who really they are: it needs a lot of dough to be an officeholder, and, wherefore, the same cast of politicians is given the chance to make a pitch for on TV and radio as they are the ones who have the ace in hole to be loved by stone broke Filipinos whose impoverishment is so relentless that they put out of their mind any belief or whatever imposing stratum of philosophising they are supposed to have because their major foreboding is their continuance. The election time is the only instant when they can be paid heed by politicians and that their bottomless pit is given allayment even for a very short period. They don’t mind whether these politicians who help them are just to be regarded with suspicion because in any case their oblivion has been drawn out and their demise is not in the early hours as it is supposed to ensue when for days or weeks their lack of food has been little by little killing them or laying their bodies slowly to rest.
Most voters don’t know our politicians really well because they have no means to do so. Considering that most voters in the Philippines have assumed education and they have no competence to know what a true leader is or what it takes to be a true leader, most politicians that we have are so commonplace and that their election reflects our being a low-grade breed of citizens who need to become conscious soon that these circumstances that we have are so despondent. And for more years that we still are not fully formed to act and this instant is supposedly the time to do so, this country is in jeopardy of becoming a built-up country. If not salvaged soon as our realisation is too late, it will become a country of desperation and wretchedness. No wonder then if most intellectuals who have the bent and the whole lot set out to other countries and completely close their eyes to their being a Filipino because the supremacy of patchiness and stupidity is so strong that no amount of writing or rationalisation can help revolutionise whatever dilemma we have. For one, I believe that if this difficulty will not be taken in hand soon, it will become malevolent and any alleviation is very uncalled for or wasted.
We should act now and not follow what deceivers and mudslingers say. We have to go out and find out who is telling the truth. We have to read our history books. We need to bring to mind what the past governments did to us and what act of treachery they did--and what they have done to make us ill with economically and politically. We should not be amnesic: we need to be insightful because we do not care for what these people and their families have done for this country. We are always not learning and, thus, we are always going back to where we started. It is like a foolish act that we all are aware but we tend not to see it or we tend not to know that we are all conscientious for whatever things which come about to this country. We should not allow the culture of jejemons and people who have nasal haemorrhage at superbness to exist generally. They exist to give their senselessness currency. They exist because we are asleep at switch.
These coming elections, we need to be on our guard. We need to vote for someone who has not marred us, who has not spent our money for something shameful, who has not left our streets or bridges or city halls roughhewn, who has passed at least a single law in his/her term in congress and senate, who has done something to earn the position he/she is running for, who has put the public interest before his/her own, who has moral ascendancy, or who has not shaken fist at any member of our family. We have to vote for someone who is a cut above, for someone who is responsible and on the level. Chew over our politicians' anwers in our dailies. Don't choose a leader whose answer is very ideal or elusive: most likely he/she is not earnest.
We need to vote for politicians who run not for a career but for a commission to serve the Filipino people. We should all be hedging our bets and on guard not to fall to the manoeuver of riding the undercurrent and unsinkable propensity when we are to decide on for our next leaders.
We should not vote for someone whose fight is based on hating PGMA and so people need to vote for him/her--but he/she can't even fix out explicit pay dirt to the problems giving us a bad time aside from stirring up enmity for the government. Would this country be more fortunate with someone who just throws stones against wrongdoers because he/she has nothing worthier to do? I think the only thing more amiss than a corrupt leader is a bush-league leader.
Try to see or don't refuse to see the negative side of our leaders. We should be perceptive voters. We should not be pulsated by fervour or grief and media tricks. We have to knock socks off our inconstancy, so we won't continue to wait out from bad hegemony as a bottom line of our individual deed. Let's scrutinise what the other candidates have to place at disposal.
"Along Towards the 10th of May" appears in News Express next week.
As elections are drawing close to, it is hard for us thinking voters to come to a decision on who to vote for as most of our runners in the national level (and even in the local level) have not been given a favourable circumstance to lay themselves open to the public as to who really they are: it needs a lot of dough to be an officeholder, and, wherefore, the same cast of politicians is given the chance to make a pitch for on TV and radio as they are the ones who have the ace in hole to be loved by stone broke Filipinos whose impoverishment is so relentless that they put out of their mind any belief or whatever imposing stratum of philosophising they are supposed to have because their major foreboding is their continuance. The election time is the only instant when they can be paid heed by politicians and that their bottomless pit is given allayment even for a very short period. They don’t mind whether these politicians who help them are just to be regarded with suspicion because in any case their oblivion has been drawn out and their demise is not in the early hours as it is supposed to ensue when for days or weeks their lack of food has been little by little killing them or laying their bodies slowly to rest. Most voters don’t know our politicians really well because they have no means to do so. Considering that most voters in the Philippines have assumed education and they have no competence to know what a true leader is or what it takes to be a true leader, most politicians that we have are so commonplace and that their election reflects our being a low-grade breed of citizens who need to become conscious soon that these circumstances that we have are so despondent. And for more years that we still are not fully formed to act and this instant is supposedly the time to do so, this country is in jeopardy of becoming a built-up country. If not salvaged soon as our realisation is too late, it will become a country of desperation and wretchedness. No wonder then if most intellectuals who have the bent and the whole lot set out to other countries and completely close their eyes to their being a Filipino because the supremacy of patchiness and stupidity is so strong that no amount of writing or rationalisation can help revolutionise whatever dilemma we have. For one, I believe that if this difficulty will not be taken in hand soon, it will become malevolent and any alleviation is very uncalled for or wasted.
We should act now and not follow what deceivers and mudslingers say. We have to go out and find out who is telling the truth. We have to read our history books. We need to bring to mind what the past governments did to us and what act of treachery they did--and what they have done to make us ill with economically and politically. We should not be amnesic: we need to be insightful because we do not care for what these people and their families have done for this country. We are always not learning and, thus, we are always going back to where we started. It is like a foolish act that we all are aware but we tend not to see it or we tend not to know that we are all conscientious for whatever things which come about to this country. We should not allow the culture of jejemons and people who have nasal haemorrhage at superbness to exist generally. They exist to give their senselessness currency. They exist because we are asleep at switch.
These coming elections, we need to be on our guard. We need to vote for someone who has not marred us, who has not spent our money for something shameful, who has not left our streets or bridges or city halls roughhewn, who has passed at least a single law in his/her term in congress and senate, who has done something to earn the position he/she is running for, who has put the public interest before his/her own, who has moral ascendancy, or who has not shaken fist at any member of our family. We have to vote for someone who is a cut above, for someone who is responsible and on the level. Chew over our politicians' anwers in our dailies. Don't choose a leader whose answer is very ideal or elusive: most likely he/she is not earnest.
We need to vote for politicians who run not for a career but for a commission to serve the Filipino people. We should all be hedging our bets and on guard not to fall to the manoeuver of riding the undercurrent and unsinkable propensity when we are to decide on for our next leaders.
We should not vote for someone whose fight is based on hating PGMA and so people need to vote for him/her--but he/she can't even fix out explicit pay dirt to the problems giving us a bad time aside from stirring up enmity for the government. Would this country be more fortunate with someone who just throws stones against wrongdoers because he/she has nothing worthier to do? I think the only thing more amiss than a corrupt leader is a bush-league leader.
Try to see or don't refuse to see the negative side of our leaders. We should be perceptive voters. We should not be pulsated by fervour or grief and media tricks. We have to knock socks off our inconstancy, so we won't continue to wait out from bad hegemony as a bottom line of our individual deed. Let's scrutinise what the other candidates have to place at disposal.
"Along Towards the 10th of May" appears in News Express next week.
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