“We have a totally preposterous system of democracy in this country.”
History will never be generous to Vice President Leni Robredo even in the years that will follow after this election. The yellow curse will forever haunt them that whoever parades as the disciple of hypocrisy will forever carry the stigma of condemnation by our people. Politicians who insist on condemning the past as his or her political capital are bound to end up in ignominy. The history they ushered in to our people brought about poverty, hunger, unemployment, chaos, and mayhem. It is this chapter in our history that our people avoid remembering.
Robredo should bear in mind that the past where the political party she associated with is the progenitor of bogus freedom and democracy is the same party that our people hate and want to forget. The communists and the terrorists joined her cause because they have become desperate in wanting to grab power shamelessly aligning themselves with the imperialist.
The trouble with the followers of Robredo is they can only make promises. This is why most of the people no longer like candidates who make promises. Most of them came from the yellow opposition who previously served but failed to make good while in power. Their situation is a dilemma, much that promises only dims their chance to be elected.
Robredo won as VP despite the questionable result of the election. As a politician seeking reelection, she should have exerted her best to serve as an elected official, as that will determine her chances to be elected to the highest position of the land. Her reelection will serve as a barometer of how she served the people and not by her religious devotion. This means that if Leni made good during her term, the candidacy of Bongbong Marcos (BBM) means nothing. But as it is, her candidacy is something of a double jeopardy, for it seems people are being punished twice without thinking they elected a demagogue who cheated them in 2016.
This explains why she is having much difficulty raising her political rating and to erase that historic shame of massive electoral fraud assisted by her alien political handlers.
To this, the pretending to be a pious political leader remains arrogant, ignoring that she has a lackluster performance now epitomized by her being anti-Filipino stance. The horde of political cannibals opted to change color and called “kakampink” for people to forget their past misdeeds. In the first place, there is no achievement she could cite. All what happened since 1986 was pillage, looting, and confiscation and sequestration of properties for their pockets and as ordered by the US pursuant to the policy of privatization.
Robredo and her traitorous cabal could not expound her policies. Even the stooge that was forcibly installed literally acted as a vandal for it seems her role was to destroy everything built by the past administration. In particular, those industries that were built and could have served as ledger for our progress were either sold, dismantled, disallowed to operate with the usual alibi that it is better for the country to import than produce them locally.
The country was already on the verge of industrialization when the American lackey was installed to power under cover of people power without the Filipino people knowing that Cory Aquino was out to deindustrialize the nation. A classic example was her decision to stop the operation of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, only to be disassembled and sold to foreign buyers. The Filipino people could not do anything.
This idol of the religious demagogue did nothing to ease the sufferings of the consumers. The Filipino people have no idea of what a “de-industrialization” means. Many were duped to believe she was saint, but in truth a modern-day charlatan out to protect the interest of the Church, the same practice of practice now vainly being duplicated by Robredo.
The same problem now besieges Ukraine. Its entry into NATO is not really about the threat of Western alliance but more of the policy of the neocons to deindustrialize Ukraine by converting the whole of Europe stretching up to the Russian border as an American colony where it could freely dump its surplus goods and armaments in a civil strife which the Americans fanned to ignite. US is treating US soldiers like chickens to be harvested at any given moment to sustain the needs of the arms industry because of their involvement in global war. The first thing the US targeted was the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany. It has difficulty sanctioning banks through Swift because it will only expose it as having no more bank deposits.
This explains why the Catholic Church to this day is brisling their teeth with anger. It is not about human rights that the hypocrites care much about but the fear that BBM will revive the old decrees taxing the church of their businesses, income, and properties, and the restoration of oil and gas as state-owned industries. The old administration which this demagogue is now trying to imbibe simply does not understand the consequence of creating a system of unequal society bearing the fruits of poverty, hunger, unemployment, criminality, and ultimately a breakdown of law and order.
Robredo and many of her pro-American stooges were induced to run to put up a semblance of democratic electoral exercise to keep alive the falsities of freedom and democracy. They really have no choice but to read the script handed to them by a bankrupt and desperate empire. Their only role is to badmouth the candidacy of BBM because beyond that, they could not cite their plan to take over industries from the US control and not for the Filipino people.
We have a totally preposterous system of democracy in this country. We do not even understand that our democracy is totally different from our exercise of freedom. The Americans completely reduced our candidates as stooges. We have democracy but without freedom.
Many have failed to take note that in a capitalist society, the exercise of freedom often entails capital.
We cannot just open our mouth and say anything or write something without using the necessary instruments to enhance and widen what we are going to say at least through the radio and television or to write something without the medium of the press or newspapers to circulate our ideas to the widest readers.
While to the American democracy is for everybody to enjoy and feel, freedom is totally different. Democracy is more of ideas and beliefs compiled as ideology, but nothing about it can be felt and enjoyed without our right to exercise those various freedoms. It is in the exercise of those freedoms given in the constitution that the capitalist society remains religiously silent. It is the capital that keeps alive and gives substance to our freedom which is often not known to our people.
A good example is that the opposition always centers their attack in criticizing the shortcomings of our freedom. However, taking a close look at the state of affairs of our mass media, the exercise of freedom is centered mostly on who owns the mess media. Sad to say, it is mostly dominated by the private sector by more than five to one. Some of them are operating without a license, franchise or permit like Rappler. Most of these privately operated, often owned and operated by the US imperialist and by the Church. Both take turns in lambasting the government and spend most of their time discrediting political rivals viz. supporting the stooge of the US. Yet, these are the same groups of people who talk much about the lack of freedom and democracy in this country.
