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Hard habit to break: The Philippine Opposition’s FAILED five-year effort to paint Duterte as a “tyrant”

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Hard habit to break: The Philippine Opposition’s FAILED five-year effort to paint Duterte as a “tyrant”

The other day, we heard the incumbent Vice-President Leni Robredo make a statement about her being tempted to ask for blanket authority to be the head the government’s pandemic response. Just when you think that was too funny, here comes Randy David trying to top the VP’s idiotic rant in his Inquirer piece today “The…

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The growing void in the Filipino psyche where substance could have thrived

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The growing void in the Filipino psyche where substance could have thrived

“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.” — The History of Freedom in Antiquity, 1877 THE TYRANNY OF THE MAJORITY Alexis de Tocqueville coined the term: “tyranny of the majority”, and  Lord Acton,…

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