Tag: 1987 constitution

Philippines running out of qualified leaders because current system encourages stupid politicians

July 6, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

Political reforms aren’t forthcoming any time soon. The perfect opportunity to institute them was just after the 1986 “revolution” when Cory Aquino established a revolutionary government after she was installed as President. Unfortunately, this was wasted because the commissioners to the Constitutional Commission basically reinstated the political system in place before the 1973 Constitution was…

Charter Change, Politics, Society

The insanity that is the Philippine Presidential System—Why “voting wisely” never works

July 4, 2021 PulbuRonn 3 Comments

The Presidential system, in the case of the Philippines, is a hit-or-miss phenomenon. You get a random Joe to run for the highest office in the land in a once-in-a-lifetime chance and hold said office for 6 years. If he’s bad, at least he’ll get to ruin the country for only 6 years. If he’s…

Charter Change, Government, Politics

The @1Sambayan June 12 fiasco was a validation of Duterte and a vindication of Marcos

June 13, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

I was thinking of an epitaph piece for 1Sampayan yesterday after that fiasco of a launch. It seems the universe read my thoughts and here’s Randy David with his weekly Inquirer column. In today’s “Making the republic work”, David laments how “supposedly responsible and educated Filipinos” find appealing the idea “that a Sara Duterte-Rodrigo Duterte…

History, Politics

Leni Robredo is DISRUPTIVE and should be BOOTED OUT of the Office of the Vice President

June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 benign0 13 Comments

When the discourse descends to childish name-calling and mud-slinging comes the time once again to step back and take stock of the landscape from a higher plane of thinking. If we apply a fresh perspective to what is going on — specifically the tiff between “vice president” Leni Robredo and Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)…

Government

Gloria Forever Scare Is Just A Yellow Ploy To Derail Federalism

October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 P. Farol 9 Comments

Yellows worship Cory’s 1987 Constitution as if it were the stone tablets on which God himself wrote his ten commandments. So much so that any person proposing any change in the 1987 constitution is automatically demonized and accused of wanting to establish another “tyrannical regime”. Thus, when Raissa Robles falsely claimed that House Speaker Gloria…

Charter Change

Martial Law “debate”: Does the Constitution serve Filipinos? Or do Filipinos serve the Constitution?

December 13, 2017December 13, 2017 benign0 9 Comments

The trouble with the whole “debate” around the proposed extension of Martial Law is that it’s been infested by “constitutionalists” beholden to the 1987 Yellowtard Constitution. The points that are truly important to the average Filipino have been all but buried under a mountain of ululations drawn from the original (and obsolete) paranoid delusions that…

Charter Change, Politics, The South

The Fastest Way to Change the Anti-People Yellowtard Constitution is through a Revolutionary Government

August 31, 2017 zaxx 18 Comments

The 1987 Yellowtard Constitution needs tweaking. No, it needs a major overhaul. Wrong again – it needs a total and complete replacement. So what’s wrong with the Yellowtard Constitution? Let’s just take this provision for example: ARTICLE VII (Executive Department) SECTION 2. No person may be elected President unless he is a natural-born citizen of…

Charter Change, Government, Politics

A simple social grace extended by Duterte to Kian’s parents made all the difference

August 29, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

The irony that escapes Yellowtards is that they now see themselves as “victims” of a system they supposedly “fought” for. If only somebody had warned them back in their golden years that spanned the 1980s through the 1990s and the 2000s: Be careful what you wish for. Indeed, everything they are now tearing their hair…

Crime, Culture