Tag: charter change

Thank Charter Change Naysayers for Perennial Political Turmoil in PH

September 29, 2026 Tony Ramos No Comments

I was casually scrolling through my Facebook feed recently when I kept running into posts claiming that Vice President Sara Duterte is effectively being written off for the 2028 presidential race. Right after those, my feed turned into a parade of early trial balloons. One post was floating a “Win-Ri” tandem between Senators Sherwin Gatchalian…

Government, Politics

Boo for Pop Culture Racism but Hooray for Economic Bigotry!

March 31, 2024April 1, 2024 Hector Gamboa 2 Comments

Remember the time when Filipinos read about this e-mail chain, that supposedly came from a Filipino tabloid spread, which tells of Tommy Hilfiger purportedly saying that had he known that Black people and Asians would buy his clothes, he never would have made them so nice? How about the time when Teri Hatcher’s character in…

Business, Charter Change, Economy, Politics

“Wag Mong Pansinin ang Pinsan Kong Marites” — Speaker Martin Romualdez On Allegations of Backing People’s Initiative

January 26, 2024January 27, 2024 Oman 2 Comments

“Wag Mong Pansinin ang Pinsan Kong Marites” — Speaker Martin Romualdez On Allegations of Backing People’s Initiative House Speaker Martin Romualdez blasted allegations reportedly from Sen. Imee Marcos saying that he was funding a people’s initiative campaign aimed at constitutional change and even offering P20 million per district. In his words, he said “Huwag niyong…

Politics

The 1987 Yellowtard Constitution is the foundation of everything wrong with the Philippines today

January 4, 2024 Ramon Ortoll 18 Comments

What did we learn from the extra-judicial ouster of an elected president? The 1987 Constitution? Our generation was fooled into believing that the late former President Ferdinand E. Marcos was evil and the late former President Cory Aquino who seized power from him in 1986 was a saint. We were naive then but for those…

Charter Change, Development

Revising the 1987 Constitution could put an end to communist insurgencies in the Philippines

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 The Unpopular Opinion 9 Comments

Issues regarding communist insurgencies in the Philippines are once again the talk of the town as the country prepares to elect its next chief executive. The current administration has been aggressive in addressing problems associated extreme leftist groups and their armed counterparts. Definitely, the next head of government would inherit these successes as the military…

Business, Charter Change, Development, Economy

Shallow and incestuous party benches mirror acute dearth of talent and qualification in Philippine politics

October 22, 2021October 22, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Inquirer columnist Doy Romero in his piece today “The Generic 5” frames the state of play today as “matrix politics” where “political parties now appear like administrative stables under an administrative head, from which are drawn players to form ad hoc project teams headed by a project manager.” In reality, this situation is symptomatic of…

Politics

Platforms and action plans, NOT mere motherhood statements: Filipinos should expect MORE from their candidates

October 17, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

Mass media was existent even before the rise of President Rodrigo Duterte. But the clowns in public office were the offshoots of the dumbing down of the Filipino by ABS-CBN and the change in demographics brought about by uncontrolled population growth. Professor Randy David in his Inquirer piece “Politics in the age of mass media”…

Development, Media, Politics

Only charter change following the 2022 elections will see the last of plurality presidents and a more unified Philippines

October 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 5 Comments

Why are Filipinos so disunited thirty-five years after Ferdinand Marcos was ousted? The answer lies in part to the unanswered question of who actually won the 1986 Snap Election. Marcos claimed victory. When the RAM mounted a coup and failed at the onset, Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile verified the claim of the then opposition…

History, Politics, Society

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