DOSE OF THEIR OWN MEDICINE

By  Bayawanon

The majority believe most of the time on their gut feelings, do their gut feelings serve them right? They believed that Duterte is the savior of the Philippines, with the negative things happening with the peace and order situation and the economic woes the country is facing can we consider Duterte as a solution or a problem?

Does the decision of Duterte to abandon the judgment of the International Arbitral Court on the Law of the Seas giving victory to the Philippines over China in connection with the territorial protest of the former over the latter serve the best interest of the people? Does the act of Duterte in leaving the traditional allies of the Philippines like the United States and the European Union in favor of Russia and China serve the best interest of the country? Do the extra judicial killings in connection with Duterte's WAR ON DRUGS give satisfaction to the summum bunum or the highest good of every Filipino?

If the answer would be in the negative then Duterte is the dose of the medicine of the people who voted for him to the presidency because of their gut feeling, for the same seems to function as the problem and not the solution.

The people must use their discernment in every election that they have to participate, they must make use of their analysis and research on who would they vote for in every electoral process that they have to exercise, since their indecision would only take a toll on their children and their children's children future.

The people have decided wrongly many times in many electoral processes, can they not learn from the lessons of the past? They have elected a president who would reign for two decades only to mismanage the Philippine economy and to destroy people's lives by way of his martial rule, now the same leader is considered by many to be the best Filipino president ever. The people have elected many national leaders from the position of senators to presidents whom the people believe can save them from the quagmire of poverty, injustice and inequality but the situation is still there and even becoming worse.

They've elected such national leaders because they have so much hope in them which only turned into a VAIN HOPE when the same would fail them. These politicians like Duterte were also elected by the people via their political gut feelings, feelings which should not have reigned over political discernment for such gut feelings are not scientific and inaccurate. Such political gut feelings would simply lead to national perdition and the same would be an insult to any voter who would fail to chose wisely by tasting the disservice of their choice/s and would serve as a dose of the their own medicine when their choice cannot serve their best interest.