Tag: thought leadership

Dutertard vs Yellowtard: Cult of personality is a hard Filipino habit to break

April 3, 2017April 3, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

Filipino activists have it all wrong. The scope of their advocacies is defined by people, and not by principle, issues, and ideas. When one defines her interests or advocacies around a person, she necessarily locks herself into a non-negotiable loyalty to that person’s own advocacies. It is a lazy sort of advocacy — picking based…

Culture, Politics, Society

Leni Robredo and the epidemic of voter remorse gripping the Philippine public

January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 benign0 18 Comments

The lesson around the need for Filipino voters to choose wisely sinks in the most with those who supported — and, worse, voted for — “vice president” Leni Robredo. One tweetizen proposed a pretty good term to encapsulate this: “voter’s remorse”. Before we go on, recall first that there is a major precedent to all…

Culture, Society

Before Mocha Uson, there was Kris Aquino. Oh, and Jim Paredes

November 22, 2016 benign0 7 Comments

The way all these crybabies are now blubbering about the rise of Mocha Uson to the top of the Philippines’ thought leadership hierarchy, you’d think celebrity endorsers had never existed before. Truth is, using glitz, glamour, and shock as a means to influence public sentiment is as old as prostitution itself. The Philippines’ now-ended 30-year…

Culture, Media, Politics, Society

Are we just gonna leave the Opposition to the Yellowtards to run?

July 7, 2016June 26, 2017 Kate Natividad 21 Comments

I support the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Finally, the Philippines has a truly badass leader — not another one of those prayerful pa-pious effect bleeding-heart pa-liberal idiots who had, over the last couple of decades, turned the Philippines into an emotard society of whiney spoiled brats tapping out their tantrums on their iPads everyday….

Media, Politics

Rodrigo Duterte represents the revolution that was denied the Filipino

May 3, 2016 benign0 42 Comments

Leading presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte is unstoppable. He does not only weather storms, he thrives in them. The latest witchhunt launched by disgruntled vice presidential candidate Antonio Trillanes (who consistently ranks near bottom in the many surveys taken so far) was a mere blip on his radar. Duterte’s fans remain adamant in their choice, and…

Media, Politics, Society

Bongbong Marcos is the only Filipino REALLY qualified to talk about the future of Mindanao!

June 18, 2015June 18, 2015 benign0 34 Comments

First of all, why do people who favour the passing of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) in its current unconstitutional form see themselves as “peace advocates”? Does that imply that war is a certainty if the current draft BBL is not passed? What does that say about the Moro Islamic Liberation Front — that terrorist…

Crime, Development, Government, Politics, Society, The South