Pinoy Pride Is Never There Where It Really Counts Elections 2013
May 22, 2013
by Gogs
May 13 2013.
I want you all to forever remember that date whenever you get the
temptation to beat your chest like King Kong over whatever
superficiality captures your nationalistic imagination until the end of
time. One reason why 2013 may be an improvement over 2012 is a year ago
the nation was “captivated ” by Jessica Sanchez. This year speaking of lack of discretion and voting we had our midterm elections.
This
is not about what I wanted to see. This is about what we did see and
possibly why. Allow me to start with the positive. I thank and I pray
for all the school teachers and other volunteers who really did it out
of civic duty. I could learn from you. Continue to be an example to
your children and to your communities. As necessary as your effort was,
it is too bad the rest of the process could not capitalize on it.
Honest , Clean and Smart. Our elections on that day were none of those
things.
Let’s
start off with “Honest”. I know for a fact many of our GRP community
read us from abroad. Usually from there you don’t get the perspective we
get from here. What I mean by perspective is you don’t get as
infuriated as us by actually seeing the front page of what passes for a
newspaper in this part of the world.
The top portion for the Philippine Star for May 15 had this headline.
Notice the word ‘peaceful’.
Which seems OK enough, then you go to the bottom of the same page and then you see this story.
If 51 dead is considered peaceful, I would hate to see what is considered bloody.
I am sorry but to me this is even much bigger goof than the Inquirer publishing the Fake Noynoy Time cover. It confirms something I always said that nobody seems to ever disagree with me. That life in the Philippines is cheap.
We have the proof here. Fifty plus dead in election related matters and
it is considered peaceful. Doesn’t this just make you swell with
Filipino pride??
I wonder who thought of the initial five day liquor ban?
I defy anybody drunk vote any worse than we did May 13 2013. How we
elect our leaders and who we elect says so much about us not much else
matters. Not American idol, not boxing, not soccer played by people who never lived in the Philippines.
Why is someone Bam never met on his election banner? I thought Cory died four years ago?
It
is so fitting that people like Grace Poe and Bam Aquino put dead people
in their billboards. The country is too brain dead to know that is so
irrelevant and so wrong. I have no idea how much you can offer the
living if you keep invoking the dead. In Ms. Poe’s case not even a blood
relative. In Bam-Bam’s case someone he has never met. Morbid epal that
propelled Noynoy Aquino to victory in 2010 is even more widely used
three years later. That is legacy. That is influence. So proud of you
Noynoy. There was allegedly a gun ban during the election season. That
did nothing to minimize gun based murders in the country. Apparently
based on the results , there was a brain ban too. I doubt there will be a
TRO on the brain ban.
Recently Mother’s Day concluded. Which is probably a Hallmark concoction.
Mothers have an infinite capacity to love. Regardless of how smart or
how ignorant their child may be. Christianity teaches us love the sinner
hate the sin. I say love the voter hate the ignorance behind the vote.
Love the country hate the stupidity. Yes I will call it stupidity and
ignorance. To call it brilliance would make me a liar. I am sure Georgina Wilson will not argue with me.
Sample ballots, cash, sample ballots with cash.
Was this a clean election? I doubt it. Of the various nefarious extra
curricular activities that were so blatant, does anyone out there
believe none of it originated from the yellow brick straight path? I had
a relative tell me on Monday she wanted “the good guys” to win. Well I
guess good guys can have vote buying in their repertoire.
Bam can build a house in the Philippine sun without sweating. Chuck Norris is envious.
Platform
is one thing and not even a major thing. From my experience, they are
just words on paper. They are just part of a feel good speech meant to
stir up a crowd. A pinoy politician’s words are not worth the spit they
are spoken on. Bam can have all the academic credentials and all these
youth activities. Pulling that Ninoy Aquino makeover comes across as
extremely superficial. Let’s see if the guy is consistent. He puts his
uncle Ninoy Aquino in his ad, a man who sacrificed his life. Bam on the
other hand posts pictures of himself in his obnoxious yellow shirt
toiling away at a house without a bead of sweat anywhere. That shouts
out phony to me. Art Williams once said “people can see a phony coming a mile away”. Art probably did not know any Filipino voters.
You
wonder why I am cynical, I have yet to hear of a politician who said
they were for separation of Church and State yet said no to a block
vote. Or was even against it in principle. Here is a dirty little
secret. Politicians have no principles.
Nancy it seems spent more time working on her moves than brushing up on the issues.
On the question posed that I should
run for office. I am not sure how one can stomach the making of the
sausage? I see what works here and as low as I am I don’t intend to
descend to that level. I don’t intend to resemble some famous dead person or hire a choreographer or pay out 35,000,000 for a celebrity endorser.
If I won’t do those three things how could I possibly be one of the 12?
I don’t have the years of community service some candidates have. Yet
the electorate ignored that aspect of many candidates. The more you
know, the more you did or the more you can do the less the electorate
relates to you.
I
don’t understand how Noynoy makes GMA the catchall. Will blame anything
on her. Yet the family has had a total of nine years in the presidency
and there is nobody convicted, let alone even given due process for the
Ninoy murder. For all Noynoy’s fury aimed at GMA, I truly do not see
anything resembling that when it comes to who killed his father.
Noynoy’s rage and anger like Spinal Tap’s audience seems to be quite selective.
People’s
values manifest themselves in the highly rated variety shows and prime
time dramas. Sadly the values inherent there spill over into the ballot
box or in this techie age the PCOS (President Cory’s Only Son) machine.
Of
course it’s more fun in the Philippines. If fun can be seen as an
absence of seriousness then it is obvious nobody in the Philippines
takes their vote seriously based on the retreads, convicts and rejects
elected. One of the reverberating quotes in the campaign was Nancy Binay
claiming motorcades is
what propelled her to her place atop the surveys. She even recommended
to her rival Risa Hontiveros to participate in more motorcades to
improve her standing. I suspect there was a certain motorcade in Dallas
where Risa Hontiveros wishes Nancy Binay was front and center of.
Actually “Back, and to the left… back, and to the left… back, and to the
left.”
I
already gathered a few points on the negative label that GRP seems to
be attached with so I can address them in a future blog. I have to admit
I was disappointed with the results of the recent elections. But then
again shame on me for having any expectations to begin with when it
comes to Pinoys exercising their reasoning in correlation with their
right to vote. My bad. I am not young. Yet I sincerely have doubts that
even our children or children’s children will ever see a political
campaign run in this country with dignity. It’s never about respect or
order or values or community. I will let you figure out what it is
really about.
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