POLITICAL INSANITY

By Bayawanon

The Philippines is now suffering from too much POLITICAL INSANITY. Imagine the people do not know how to chose good leaders anymore, they can easily be swayed by candidates who would promise them that CHANGE IS REALLY COMING. Now the one that they have voted in office is the very first one to destroy DEMOCRACY in the name of so-called change.

Everybody knows that there is a prevalence of human rights abuses by the State by virtue of killings outside legal procedures and judicial proceedings. People do not care and instead some of them would even tell us that those being killed do not have the right to live since they are undesirable citizens of the country because they are dreaded criminals, drug addicts, drug pushers etc. and the approval rating of the main architect of the human rights abuses in the country is still sky high despite his blunders in economic and foreign policies. He ordered the burial of the former human rights violator himself for the same to be buried at he National Heroes' Cemetery which was eventually permitted by the highest court of the Philippines, the Supreme Court.

Is this the change the people are waiting and asking for from the new national leadership of the Philippines? If the answer is in the negative then it is now high time for the people to think twice and go for the GENUINE CHANGE.
John Locke would tell us in his Political Theory he would dub as "The Social Contract Theory", in this thesis he would mentally condition us that the leaders have the duty to lead us in the right manner and as followers we have to follow them. He would continually politically educate us that the governed and the rulers have that "social contract", that it is incumbent on the leaders to lead the citizens in the right way, since if the same would be hostile, harmful and destructive to the people, the latter have the right to revolt against their leaders.

In conjunction to this, I hope and pray that this scenario would not happen since I love the land of my birth. I don't want a revolution against THE AGENT OF CHANGE, since in a revolution there would be collateral damages, I instead pray that the AGENT OF CHANGE himself be enlightened that what he is doing now is no longer good and healthy for Philippine democracy and I hope further that the people who catapulted him into power would have that political correctness in every time they have to go in polling places come election time.

If the people would get enlightened and would become thinking electors in every election they would join, then political insanity on the part of the FILIPINO can be averted but at the very juncture of the present political page we are facing, I believe that we are still in a stage of POLITICAL INSANITY.