Destroy the idea that men should respect women because we are their daughters, mothers, and sisters.
Reinforce the idea that men should respect women because we are people.
— Radleigh Lauren
Iba ang pagtatraydor pag magkapamilya. Pero nakakasuka na ito kung naiangat na sa national leadership. Bakit kasi magkapatid ang pangulo at senador? Bakit kasi magpinsan ang pangulo at speaker? Bakit anak ng pangulo ang congressman? Bakit natin hinahalal ang mga magkaka-apelyido?
How infuriating it must be to be the presidential sister— a senator, the self-styled brainy heir of dictator father’s legacy— and yet be shut out from the real levers of power. To be so close to Malacañang by blood but so far from its authority. To settle for cheap political points, press conferences, and now rally speeches, all to get the attention of the brother-turned-president who will not take her seriously. To drag the nation into a family feud to legitimize her tantrums.
I won’t be surprised if the alleged illegal drug use of the president is true. It must be hard to lose the party boy instincts that he so enjoyed during martial law years. But I ask Senator Imee, the other Marcos, to what end is this revelation? Is this in the public interest, or is it part of a more insidious political agenda? Why now during the Iglesia Ni Cristo rally? From the Zaldy Co videos to this, this feels like a grand script that ends with your brother removed from office and your political principal, Vice President Sara Duterte, assuming the presidency. And what might Sara Duterte presidency bring to the country (to answer Jimmy Bondoc)? An addiction to violence, to impunity, to unnecessary loss of lives. And that is an addiction this country cannot bear again.
To end this exhausting family drama, perhaps it’s time for Imee’s family to return to exile in Hawaii, and for the Dutertes to find their own exile in The Hague. Be gone, you two! Only then might Filipinos be spared from a dynastic feud shoved down our throats, one that keeps dividing the nation into their loyalists and supporters.
If you’re calling for Bongbong Marcos to resign because he is corrupt, yet you choose to stay silent or worse, blind about the corruption involving Sara Duterte, then let’s be honest: you’re not fighting for transparency and accountability.
That’s not a principle. That’s a political agenda.
Real calls for good governance must be consistent. Otherwise, it’s just selective outrage dressed up as activism.
Daily reminder that democracy and justice needs to be CONSISTENT. Marcos-Duterte parehong diktador at pasista. Parehong incompetent at hindi dapat maupo sa kahit anumang upuan sa gobyerno.