27 May 2019

• Explaining the huge chasm between the elite’s and the masses’ worldviews

  THE results of the recent elections, especially the total rejection in the Senate of the Yellow-Red candidates, demonstrated in such stark manner the huge chasm, the colossal difference in the worldview of the elite and the masses. This is most dramatized in the case of President Duterte’s Ronald de la Rosa, his police chief who […]

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• Think of it as a version of Japan and Singapore’s decades-old single-party rule

  OF course the Yellow ideologues, and those brainwashed in US neoliberal ideology will be aghast. But I dare propose the thesis that because of the massive popular support for President Duterte, his control of the Congress could be our version of Japan, Singapore and Malaysia’s decades-old single-party rule. And such single-party dominance, with democratic mechanisms […]

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• This nation is on the verge of take-off, finally

  THE most important consequence of the elections the other day is this: The political landscape has been cleared for our country to finally take off, not just in terms of its economy and its nationhood. The results of the senatorial contest prove without an iota of doubt that there is massive support for President Duterte. […]

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• Red-Yellow alliance vs Duterte will massively fail

  THE unholy alliance between the Communist Party with its rabble of front organizations and personalities and the stragglers of the Aquino Yellow Cult will massively be defeated in today’s elections, which are really a referendum on President Duterte’s administration. My bet is that the Red-Yellow axis won’t get a single Senate seat. Forget those clowns […]

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• Roxas to the Senate? His reward for wrecking MRT-3?

  I WROTE the column reproduced below on May 17, 2017, and there were several others on the same topic earlier in 2016 and 2015. Mar Roxas and Emilio Abaya, who were Aquino 3rd’s transport secretaries when the MRT-3 went to the dogs, did not contest any of its claims, or even its title: “For the […]

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