Intellectual masturbation is one of the habits of the Yellowidiots. The other day, former presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda posted an essay about the need for a disruptor presidential candidate in 2028 asserting that the “next leader must be a disruptor: someone unafraid to break the old machinery of power that has long served politicians instead of the people.” That candidate is none other than, who else, Risa Hontiveros.
Today, the non-related by blood Quezon scion writes — in his usual roundabout manner — about the need to amend the 1987 constitution if we’re to effect institutional reforms in our otherwise inherently-corrupt government. In his Inquirer piece “Disruption”, Manuel L Quezon III writes…
I am of the belief that the rules determine political behavior, and if the Constitution can be compared to an operating system, then the Philippine government’s 1987 Constitution is unique on two counts: it is now long in the tooth, but more importantly, it has never been updated since it was loaded into our political system. Here, this combination of being old and obsolete isn’t unique: our banks, programmers will tell you, creak along, and it was not so long ago that companies had to have ancient PCs in their inventory, because the Bureau of Internal Revenue would only accept submissions made through Internet Explorer, which can only be found, because only on them can it still run, on obsolete PCs.
Supposedly the parliamentary form of government lost by only one vote when the constitutional commission voted on it in 1987. Recall that then President Cory Aquino appointed the members of the commission to write a new constitution to replace former President Ferdinand E Marcos’s 1973 constitution, which was its own version of a parliamentary form of government. Indeed, his 1973 constitution replaced the 1935 constitution which was largely an American imposition. The Malolos Constitution of the revolutionary government was, itself, parliamentary in nature as per the prevailing majority in Europe and Asia at that time, since the colonized traditionally followed in the footsteps of their colonial masters.
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This raises the confronting question: Where does the fault in our political system actually lie? Is it in the system of governance or is the social construct also a factor, given our history with the Spaniards who didn’t impart democratic governance or the Americans who did impose their own system on us but allows its corruption in order to obtain the cooperation of the ruling class to bend to its wishes?
It may actually be a combination of the two but no one brings up the elephant in the room which is, that the practice has withstood the test of time. Our more prescient problem is the fact that we don’t have a younger generation of leaders who will not succumb to the temptation of easy money from public funds. The best example of how low we’ve stopped is our present situation. Our public intellectuals are social media influencers and Filipinos are divided into three major political camps. Not much different from the tribal nature of ethnicities; tagalog, capampangan, ilonggo, waray, bikolano, bisaya etc., etc.
Perhaps the best solution is to break up the “republic” put together by the Spaniards and the Americans. Since everyone is busy protecting their own interests, no one has bothered to notice just how fucked up our so-called country is.
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The american mentality is why the failippines exists. Latino showboating and american buffoonery.
If asia were a school, the failippines would be the special ed class.
The Philippines needs to stop blaming others for what they’ve had plenty of time to correct on their very own. The basic problem appears to be more tribal as reflected by people being so self-centered & their nonempathic attitude toward fellow Filipinos. Then the big question of trust comes into play. I don’t see how things will ever really change in the Philippines until trust among people improve. Another is accountability. Things are unlikely not to change until people from all walks of like accept accountability for their own actions & stop blaming others, etc.
What you mentioned are all connected. When you have to defeat your fellow Filipino to get ahead, it precisely creates a low-trust environment. You almost have to shut down any empathy to take advantage. Not taking accountability becomes the norm because the image of success is seen and measured by how much wealth you have collected. Money cult is what we have.
Filipinos “being so self-centered & their nonempathic attitude toward fellow filipinos”, “to defeat your fellow Filipinos to get ahead” are exactly the symptoms of too much capitalism, laissez faire, and freemarket. What is needed is more socialistic means in the country.
I don’t understand the inflated ego when literally everything we have is somehow a conception of the collective human history. In the process, they mess with evolution and innovation that should go together in a positive trajectory.
I often believed exactly what stated & therefore agree. Thanks much for your comments.
It’s not a coincidence that businessmen dip their hands in politics, while politicians turn political advantage into capital/business opportunity. The notion that public servants should be immune to using their position for self-interest is delusional at best.
I would have to disagree if you are stating it’s okay for politicians to use their positions for self gain in the business world. When the greater public doesn’t have the same advantages.
well, the masses are stupic, thats a given.
whether by gemetics, lack of education, or indoctrinization.
i mean, theyre still out there, dancing in the streets with the santo nino, every fukking year.
Unfortunately, you’re so correct. I’ve observed that it’s next to impossible for a Filipino to accept any type of advise (good or bad) after being married to a Filipina for 55 years & living in the Philippines off & on since the 1970’s. They flat can’t accept that they could ever be wrong nor can they ever accept accountability for their mistakes. Always hiding behind Hiya. Where they will ly to save face. And for the dumbest of reasons. Also, they appear to be to self-centered to even care about the greater good. They sometimes act like they care. But it’s like their smiles. Normally fake.
yes, unfortunately.
if you wish to lead, then this is what you have to lead:
a stupid people, but often unreasonably stubborn and proud.
not the best at planning and organization and community building, will dump garbage absolutely anywhere.
emasculated, misled, miseducated for centuries. a sad case of an entire nation subjected to arrested development , with the mental development of teenagers.
bleeding heart liberals, you desire power.
how would you propose to handle the masses?
you cant just get some random NGO fag and expect the idiots people to follow.
there it is, gibo teodoro looking so happy to hold the anchorman pete hegseth’s hand.
like a giddy submissive school gay
tibo should feel so secure and warm, being in the arms of someone as strong and with a nuclear dick as uncle sammy.
tibo geodoro just gets tickled pink everytime he gets hand fucked by pete “the anchorman” hegseth.
supposedly a brilliant lawyer bar topnotcher, but the guy melts and becomes a submissive bitch in front of the yanquis.
even bobby M actually thinks he is at the level of xi jin ping , to actually reach out and shake his hand without invitation.
what an idiot.
memorizing law books aint worth shit.
we filipinos worship bar exam topnnotchers like its some sort of big deal.
WELL, ITS NOT.
real brilliant people are those who built THE BOMB.
forget lawyers, lets focus on making real SCIENTISTS ( not those dime a dozen fake phds)
Lawyers, scientists. Everybody bends to money based on a sick value system.
yea, but nobody bends over for money more than the bloodsucking lawyer.
at the least, dentists pull teeth, doctors remove tonsils, engineers make toys and videogames, accountants count money, what do lawyers even do that makes them think theyre entitled to the top of the food chain?
heres an idea, instead of lawyers, all accused should face instead, a full grown grizzly bear.
the greater the crime, the longer the time in the cage with the bear.
the bear issues justice.
when the times up and youre still alive, then its an acquital for you!
for something like estafa, you get like 30minutes in the bear cage. will you live? will you get ypur innards eaten while you are still alive? it will be a life altering experience either way.
for drug trafficking, a couple of days , 2 bears
for rape with murder, a whole week and 3 bears
for someone like zaldo bacoco, 2 weeks with 5 bears that havent eaten in five days, and a luggage full of cash.
i dont think bears have much use for cash.
sounds about fair.
how many lawyers do you even need at the department of fucking transportation?
all of them, apparently. a bunch of lawyers.
who gets anything done with lawyers??
lawyers seem to be doing a lot of things, but its all words and air, they get nothing done.
get rid of the lawyers, get some real planners in there!
the problem bogging us down – TOO MANY LAWYERS In GOVERNMENT
lawyers have no business being in executive positions – because they cant execute. they are triained to memorie laws and jurisprudence and all that shit, and will over analyze and be cautious and overly prudent, leading to so much inaction.
can a lawyer analyze traffic patterns and flows and simulate river basin flood scenarios and devise more efficient garbage collection systems? NO.
lawyers only slow things down. get the lawyers out of the executive branch, and our government will function better . that is guaranteed.
give me a japanese garbageman for every filipino lawyer and i can make this shitty government work.
Who will rise up and say f*** Duterte and f*** Marcos and f*** all the political dynasties?
Run a social media campaign like Mandami did in New York.
Go all across the country talking to people. Every Filipino watches TikTok / Facebook for hours a day.
Start now.
Please. Somebody (anybody) with a brain who will call out all of the clowns like the guy in Argentina (Milei) did.
The game plans are out there. Be a populist who will trash talk all the shitty mayors and governors and senators who are out of the country all the time.
Why are Filipino countries ever leaving the country with the amount of work needed????
*** Why are Filipino politicians ever leaving the country with the amount of work needed???
that someone youre talking about ==> duterte
wlog.qed
Milei has been identified as a classic populist and is often compared to other right-wing politicians such as former U.S. president Donald Trump, Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro, unsuccessful Chilean presidential candidate José Antonio Kast, and former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte.
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/who-is-the-real-javier-milei/
Sara Duterte is the furthest thing from a populist or politician calling out corruption or a politician trying to to create change.
She said one thing about zaldo co and Romaldez before all the info came out, that is a about it in terms of her being anti-corruption. She also has a corruption case where money is going to fake people and there are hundreds / thousands of ghost projects under her father.
She is an emotional crybaby who can’t get over the Marcos betrayal. I was wrong about her as at one point I supported her.
Hopefully someone with a brain and a plan emerges.
when one says duterte, it refers to rodrigo, not sara.
only idiots would think otherwise
We don’t need more laws if no one is going to act with integrity. We need tough enforcement from the people themselves. Corruption is emergent in a system where money is thought to be real power. When in actual crisis, reality reorders itself to slap us with the truth.
The unfortunate reality in the Philippines. A society based on Hiya & Pakikisama & no one ever takes accountability. Until people accept mistakes & take accountability to correct nothing will ever change.
filipinos actually dont have “hiya” or shame.
they will make the streets their personal parking space and even living room.
they will build over adjacent sidewalks and put a fence around it.
they will play loud music and sing the most off key drunken karaoke all day.
they will make a dead man’s wake an excuse to use half the street just to play cards.
their motorcycles and pedicabs and pushcarts will ply the middle of the street at the slowest possible pace
they will think nothing of piling their trash on someone elses property.
they will let their dogs roam free and crap on your doorstep.
they will build sari sari stores everywhere.
they will park a single motorcycle in spaces intended for cars
they never come to a meeting on time.
no shame.