it’s election time again. time to whip out the wads of kaching to lure in those votes.
to all you campaigners and aspiring “heroes of the masses” who have no decorum nor respect for filipinos, you disgust me.
you have no decorum because you’d rather have your pretty (ugly) faces plastered all over the city and thus trash the mmda-reclaimed walls (yes i’m a big fan of BF. there.) you have no decorum because you’d rather let loud music blast from makeshift stages with women dancing in skimpy clothes just to attract attention.
“Candidates may put up their posters on the gates, walls, and fences of village halls, public markets, and other government offices. They may also put them in public plazas, public schools, health centers, tricycle terminals as well as covered courts and open spaces and vacant lots.”-inq7.net
which brings me to my next point: you have no respect for filipinos. i’d like to think that my fellow citizens are not just passive recipients of mass messages and that the spiral of silence theory is just a bunch of crap. you present your agendas like you spell A-B-C’s to a 7 year-old child. i think filipinos have gone through a lot for us to be treated like innocents. we know there are hidden agendas, and pork-barrel aspirants. where the hell do my taxes go!? (that would be another story) and what’s with the tv ads and commercial jingles?
you have commercialized yourselves too much. you’ve sold your souls to the gods of advertising. leadership is not a commodity we filipinos can just take at face value. unfortunately, a lot of you do have the faces that can launch a million friggin votes. leadership is something we measure in deeds and actions. but those not skewed during the last year of term before reelection. leadership isn’t something to be taken for granted.
sometimes i wish there would just be complete political genocide. sometimes i wish those people who would run for office would only either be from the middle or upper class with just enough money or if they had to be poor, only those who have an honest ambition to serve.
to serve. public office is a service. why do i always have a feeling that it’s the other way around? i don’t think a lot of our government dudes know that. again, where in hell do my taxes go?
so forgive my disillusion. 3 EDSA “revolutions” can do that to someone who grew up in a society where corruption is the norm rather than the exception. so to all you political wannabes, you had better be worth the scrutiny.
