PSYCHOLOGY OF A FILIPINO VOTER PART IV (FANATICISM)

By Bayawanon

One of the prevalent bad characteristics of Filipino voters is their being FANATICS. Some if not most of them, vote for their POLITICAL IDOLS, even if many of them cannot deliver the things that are expected of them. Most of the Filipino voters vote for and in favor of personalities and not of issues, and the majority of the politicians whom they idolize come from the entertainment industry like the professional basketball players, movie actors/actresses, professional boxers, singers etc. whom we feel like nothing to offer with regard to public service.

Plenty of the Filipinos would vote for the officials who have sub-standard projects because according to them, these officials have innumerable projects, not knowing that the projects that were/are built by their idols were/are below sub-par since some of the money intended for such projects were actually pocketed by their icons

Some if not majority of the Filipino voters, vote for the so-called 'messiahs' who can probably save the Philippines from the abyss, who in turn can make the country worst from bad. They sometimes tend to vote for would be national leaders who have limited national experience, leaders who enjoyed local preponderance in their locality, whom they feel like good national managers sans national experience.

The limitations of national experience of their political idols would have been an issue in the campaign trail, but without hesitation, they vote for their icons because of too much idolatry or of too many promises, promises which can probably make dead people rise from their graves, which actually, in turn, make alive people bury for their graves.

The voters whom I discussed above usually rely on their gut-feel, that the would be leaders that they would be voting can deliver the basic goods and services that they are needing. The question now is this, how can an entertainer be an effective leader in a field that she/he has no training or has limited training? How can a leader of a locality be directly a good national leader when in fact he/she has limited if not bereft of national experience?

The people usually vote because of one's popularity and not of one's capability, and it is purely and simply called FANATICISM. If this trend would continue in the Philippine political setting, do you think the Philippines would go places and greater heights in terms of development? Does the Philippines need a long time to mature politically because of this trend? These questions can simply be answered by the political events that happen in the country in the past few years, and I hope that these queries can be answered in the affirmative.