As a nation we have not achieved our forebears purpose. We languish in the gutter mired in corruption. There were brilliance in the past but we were not able to sustain them. Today we are where we used to be 20, 40 and even 60 years back. I believe we will never achieve and reach the level of prosperity for all unless we address our pernicious political system of dynasty and political butterfly. We have elections but it is just a change of personality and the corruptions even getting worse. Our election has become a festive event like a big movie featuring personality. The winner is voted on the amount of money dispense to voters not on who gives the best program of government. The candidates sing, dance and joke. So, here we are having a joke of a government from the lowest to the highest post. We did try to ban dynasty in our constitution but the irony is we trusted the lawmaking to the law breaker. It's like pinning our hope to a miracle. How can we make a working anti-dynasty law a reality? Through revolution? There was a time in the past where we voted candidates based on the party and/or program they represent. That was in the past. We do have a multi-party system but the winning candidate just change affiliation after winning. Effectively, we have a single party system and the multi party if just a facade. Who's the loser? It is the nation and that keeps us poorer making the gap between rich and poor wider. How do we stop the political butterfly? Perhaps a law requiring the all candidates, win or lose to remain in the same party for at least 3 consecutive election before they are allowed to change party affiliation. COMELEC should remain neutral unlike now where it looks more like a city council of Davao City. No sitting president should be allowed to appoint more than 3 commissioners for the duration of his/her term. Of course a good president is not going to abuse his/her position and would not miss the opportunity. However, this is going to be a good deterrent to a bad president. Without this reform, we will never see a better PH, it is a hopeless future.
As a nation we have not achieved our forebears purpose. We languish in the gutter mired in corruption. There were brilliance in the past but we were not able to sustain them. Today we are where we used to be 20, 40 and even 60 years back. I believe we will never achieve and reach the level of prosperity for all unless we address our pernicious political system of dynasty and political butterfly. We have elections but it is just a change of personality and the corruptions even getting worse. Our election has become a festive event like a big movie featuring personality. The winner is voted on the amount of money dispense to voters not on who gives the best program of government. The candidates sing, dance and joke. So, here we are having a joke of a government from the lowest to the highest post. We did try to ban dynasty in our constitution but the irony is we trusted the lawmaking to the law breaker. It's like pinning our hope to a miracle. How can we make a working anti-dynasty law a reality? Through revolution? There was a time in the past where we voted candidates based on the party and/or program they represent. That was in the past. We do have a multi-party system but the winning candidate just change affiliation after winning. Effectively, we have a single party system and the multi party if just a facade. Who's the loser? It is the nation and that keeps us poorer making the gap between rich and poor wider. How do we stop the political butterfly? Perhaps a law requiring the all candidates, win or lose to remain in the same party for at least 3 consecutive election before they are allowed to change party affiliation. COMELEC should remain neutral unlike now where it looks more like a city council of Davao City. No sitting president should be allowed to appoint more than 3 commissioners for the duration of his/her term. Of course a good president is not going to abuse his/her position and would not miss the opportunity. However, this is going to be a good deterrent to a bad president. Without this reform, we will never see a better PH, it is a hopeless future.
intelligent and insightful as usual
https://open.substack.com/pub/donnliston907/p/koneksyon-ng-alaska-pilipinas-4?r=1ebyjn&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
I appreciate your views and have referenced your grandfather’s significant contributions to Philippine sovereignty in my latest post:
https://open.substack.com/pub/donnliston907/p/alaska-philippines-connection-4?r=1ebyjn&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post