Tag: opposition

The Yellow-led Philippine Opposition are missing many opportunities to LEAD Filipinos

February 3, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

Small wonder that they continue to look so lost and broken. Rather than lead, the Philippine Opposition in its current form today merely react. One can easily observe just how disturbingly reactive the Opposition are — turning their attention from one thing to another depending on what is “trending”. This sort of behaviour all the…

Politics

Besmirching “Dictators’ Supporters” has Backfired

January 26, 2020January 26, 2020 ChinoF 9 Comments

This is the very mistake that dragged the “opposition” down. When they see people voicing support for the Marcoses, Duterte, Trump or other perceived “dictator,” they would attack, insult and besmirch such people, accusing them of being “trolls.” They think by insulting or libeling “dictator’s supporters,” they are doing something good. The opposite is true….

Culture, Politics

What didn’t destroy Duterte only made him more popular

January 23, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

As the saying goes what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. Recent popularity surveys reveal that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte remains popular among Filipinos despite his critics’ best efforts to sabotage his government. Duterte got an “excellent“ net satisfaction rating of +72 in the last three months of 2019, according to emailed results of…

Politics

Why Leni Robredo’s “report” on the War on Drugs ultimately won’t matter

January 7, 2020January 8, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

If Opposition partisans, particularly the lot of them who worship Philippine “vice president” Leni Robredo, think that her recent “report” on the Philippine government’s “failed” drug war will deliver any outcomes favourbale to their cause, they are in for a surprise. Well, actually, one would think it would be unsurprising. Time and again, it has…

Crime, Politics

Recall that Western and Christian ideals were used to justify colonisation and imperial rule

December 29, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

Back when the Spanish Conquistadors first set foot on Philippine shores and claimed all in the name of God and the Spanish king, it would have looked like this all made sense. Christianity, after all, was the “good” religion and Western civilisation regarded as a necessary “civilising” force. Europeans saw themselves as burdened by a…

Government, Politics, Society

Philippine Opposition in disarray again after failed “Magnitsky Act” demonisation campaign

December 27, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

The Philippine Opposition are rotting from the inside. This is because their own “thought leaders” are failing to provide sound leadership. Rather than enrich their party ideologies, the premiere “influencers” of the Opposition are leading their members down dead-end pathways. Over the last ten years, the ideological foundations of what had been an almost four-decade…

Media, Politics

SO WHAT if the Philippines is “less democratic” under Duterte?

December 3, 2019 benign0 9 Comments

Leaders of today’s Philippine Opposition will have us believe that democracy is in crisis — even in decline (horrors!) — and, as such, heralding a coming era of doom and gloom for the nation in the coming years. They, of course, attribute this unfortunate prognosis to the government of President Rodrigo Duterte who, since Day…

Government, Politics

Firing of Leni Robredo as “Drug Czar” is the final nail in the Liberal Party coffin

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 Ilda 16 Comments

Things have been moving too fast in Philippine politics lately that it’s hard to keep up. I have been promising myself I would write about current Vice President Leonor “Leni” Robredo’s relentless attacks on the government – a government she is a part of, but before I had a chance to do it, President Rodrigo…

Crime, Government, Politics