The Philippine Opposition have so far achieved just one thing — make the Philippines look like a failed state to the global community. Is that an achievement? It is — if your sole be-all-end-all goal is to grab back power, that is. To be fair, that is what an Opposition is supposed to be in a democracy — a party or coalition of parties that aims to be an alternative to the incumbent. The Philippine Opposition, in that regard, provides just that and nothing more — an alternative bunch of people to put in power. Beyond that it does not propose anything else.
Given that objective, to serve as a plarform to launch arbitrary sets of people into power, the Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) sets out to do just that — at all cost.
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Taking stock of what the Yellowtards are up to at present, it is evident that they would like to see the Philippines remain in oribit around the influence of old colonial masters. They have invited the foreign media to slander the Philippines and are in the midst of a focused campaign to lock Filipinos into a beholdenness to a foreign “criminal court” in The Hague. All the while they fail at providing a real alternate pathway to the approach the administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is taking his country.
Perhaps to the points being made by the Yellowtards, Duterte has been less-than-well-behaved (by Western standards) in the manner by which he had set out to make good on his campaign promises to crush the drug trade, criminality, and corruption in the Philippines. The trouble with the Opposition’s scorched-earth approach to countering that incumbent strategy is to destroy the trail being blazed by the administration and hitch the country back onto the comfy locomotive of Western “visionary” leadership.
Unfortunately, what the Philippines needs is more innovation and more vision — not the fundamentalist cling-on to Western liberal dogma that had proven to be a dud for Philippine society but which the Opposition led by the Yellowtards would like to keep Filipinos addicted to. What the Yellowtards are doing is actually a form of psychological abuse — convincing Filipinos that they are no good outside of the sphere of influence and “guidance” of Western ideological dogma. Rather than encourage Filipinos to spread their wings and experiment, the Yellowtards are gaslighting Filipinos; keeping them emotionally dependent on a dripfeed of Western liberalism.
Filipinos have long aspired to be truly independent. They celebrate “heroes” who, supposedly, led them in fights to liberate them from foreign domination. Perhaps the part of this narrative that Filipinos failed to understand is that once they are free of that foreign influence, they need to start thinking independently as well and learn to chart their own pathways into the future. The Opposition and their Yellowtard leaders are not up to the task of encouraging Filipinos to take that crucial next step to true national adulthood.
It’s time Filipinos form an independent opinion of what it means to be a great nation and a great people. Specially nowadays when the West — and the United States in particular — are proving to be flawed role models, this has become imperative for a people at an ideological crossroads. The Opposition in its current form and thinking is not up to the task of leading Filipinos through this age of rapidly-evolving ideologies. Filipinos need a new type of Opposition — one that is forward looking and unhinged from traditional narratives that have become obsolete. It is time that Filipinos expect more of their Opposition and, for that matter, the political parties they choose from. More importantly, Filipinos need to modernise their notion of what true leadership means. Leaderhip should no longer be a notion based on sad victim narratives be more grounded on a profound courage to look to the future for new ways forward and innovative ways to tread these paths.
benign0 is the Webmaster of GetRealPhilippines.com.
You don’t have any clue about Western liberalism. But you let yourself fool by the name “Liberal Party”. They may want African style cleptocracy or South American oligarchy but not liberalism. But you are promoting western fascism. And can’t prove why is that better. I know you want a Marcos style totalitariansm. But this is closer to the Yellowtards than Duterte.
What makes you think I want “a Marcos style totalitarianism”?
Yes. It was under Nazi Germany that Hitler did a totalitarianism under World War II
Yes. It was under Nazi Germany that Hitler did a totalitarianism under World War II
No, you’re just shooting yourself in the foot with those blatant assumptions.
Typical troll w/ lazy thinking.
“You don’t have any clue about Western liberalism.”
Filipino “liberals” behave just like American “liberals,” a stupid lot of onion-skinned SJWs complaining about every perceived “injustice” and so out of touch with reality its no wonder their respective “bets” lost the election. I’m pretty sure the author has got a “clue.”
BTW, barangay elections is sucks. It’s not meant for a second job that’s why 99.9% of barangays were neglected. The elected officials area just after the pay. If the house of representatives can do rules why not the barangays have their own to expelled those through voting officers doing mothing.
The major shortcoming in Philippine politics is that it is personality based, not policy based. Party allegiance is something given lip-service at election time, in the hope that it will make a candidate more electable. Once it has served its purpose, it is jettisoned.
From what I read in the media, 8 senators are complaining that they are not being offered slots on PDP-Laban’s senatorial election slate, despite being elected on a Liberal Party platform. Their grounds are ‘we support Pres Duterte.’
Add to that the cavalry charge of Representatives elected under the LP banner who joined the ‘super majority’ you start thinking – Is Congress actually anti-democratic ?
The Philippine opposition, led by the : Liberal Party; the Aquino Cojuangco political axis; the leftist ideologues; and all kind of shades of anti Duterte; are politically bankrupt in ideology. They have no plans for the future to the country. They have no solution to the present problems of our country. They don’t even know where, they politically stand, in the cross road the country is being set upon.
All they do is : to criticize Duterte; obstruct his program implementations; plan for ways to impeach , remove or replace Duterte, with themselves. They are now asking foreign entities to help in the ousting of Pres. Duterte. They go to the : U.S.; European Union; United Nations; International Criminal Court; etc… imploring these foreign , to intervene in our country, and to help them grab back the power , they enjoyed for the last 30 years.
They even politicized and corrupted our COMELEC Election system, to insure that , they can grab back power, once their candidate, Mar Roxas lost in the Presidential election. The crook, former COMELEC chief, Andres Bautista, was bribed by them, to make Leni Robredo, win the Vice Presidency. This is their “insurance policy” , to grab back power.
And by the way, the Filipino people have already awakened , and are aware of this political shenanigan of the opposition. The Information Technology is here. No one has the monopoly of information. We can discuss all kinds of issues in the Web Blogs, the like GRP Web site, and other Web sites. Any Filipino , or foreigner can come to these Web sites , and discuss with us, any issue. We will answer all your questions, in the best way that we can; as long as it is sensible.
We too can discuss all kinds of issues in Web Blogs, such as STF (The Stagnant Filipino).
Correction, it’s TSF (The Stagnant Filipino)
You intend this on purpose???
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