Too Much Politics

     It's ten days or so before filing of candidacy for May 2025 election but politicians have started the ball rolling. Several potential candidates for senators have aired their ads on TV since last month The Commission on Elections cannot do anything about it, it seems. The trapos (traditional politicians) are like having a feast.

     It's saddening how much they try to portray how much they've done for the country but it's all words and the lives of the ordinary man remains the same. There is so much poverty in the countryside yet politicians are busy with their scoring points to get the masses' support come election time.

     What is even more saddening is the return of the Marcoses and Romualdezes into power and their perpetration of old ways of politics not different from the politics of the Marcos-Imelda era. 

     The Romualdezes are using government agencies like the DSWD to dole out cash incentives to the masses. I am so perplexed because initially I thought they are giving out the monetary based on their plan, later I found out all of them are existing programs of MSWD and they are abusing them to their advantage. The poor masses think they are able to receive because of them, without any idea that they are actually existing programs of DSWD. If only following to the letter, anybody can go and apply at DSWD. What they did is organize MSWD to dole out in the countryside with their names and party list prominently displayed.

     I was listed as recipient of a certain monetary incentive, which later I found out is a DSWD program for former OFWs. I went to receive not knowing it is for ex-OFW which actually aptly suits me, and the speech before giving out the cash, was as if it is an initiative of TINGOG, a Romualdez-led party list. Something is very wrong.

     In May 2025 is the mid-term elections where it is an election for half of the senators, congressmen and all local officials. This is going to be a make or break exercise for the Filipinos. If they elect still the people of the Marcoses and Romualdezes, it is going to continue the downward spiral of this country. If the electorate chooses alternative politicians to eliminate vestiges of the Marcoses and Romualdezes, it will be an action in the right positive direction, hope for the country's future.