NEVER AGAIN TO HAVING A COMMANDER AND CHIEF

I say this country is easy to govern because most Filipinos are a very obedient group of people. It is the leadership that is lacking.

When Duterte became President, it would be a crossroads that in many ways crystallize everything that had brought him so far from home. It was the end of the magical political odyssey in Davao City and a final step into the national spotlight. He assembled all the little ordinary outdated pieces of himself and walked on to rule the country as president for all ages, styles, and colors. In his first encounter of a Super Typhoon named Ompong, his bravado backed by a devilish brilliance has made him a distinction from all previous presidents.

In the previous presidents, Filipinos are suffering from a very serious inferiority complex. Every time our country suffers catastrophe we beg on bended knees, looking for a pittance. So, it was a problem of inferiority complex; they don’t believe in themselves. They don’t even see the country as theirs. Likewise, during typhoons, all those previous presidents were afraid to dip their toes in the water. Thus, we have those kinds of presidents who were Commander and Chief who only speaks to the Ground Commanders from a distance and only goes out when the television light flickers.

At last, with PDU30, We have a hands-on leader who has a man-to-man monitoring initiative. He led us towards action, not just informed. Not just "invited", but led, inspired, empowered. He is a Leader, who decides to get serious and make a bold stand for our wonderful country, do some butt-kickery, at least on that to those inefficient and unproductive sycophant officials. If not, things would get worse, really fast.

With PDU30, this is the critical variable in regaining our pride and dignity by being friends to all and enemies to none. But we have to remain strong in the eyes of the world. We cannot beg on bended knees for a pittance if we want some respect and be treated as their equals. Nobody achieves success by begging. One must put up an obnoxious amount of work to succeed.

It is a sad state though that while PDu30's whole life was wound around his duties and obligations just to make lives better, the intense envy of his enemies turned into hate, furious and bitter. These enemies have in their nature to fixate upon the suffering that they can cause to PDU30, adding grief to grief by their cruel treatment whose work they also have benefitted. But the paradox is, instead of PDU30 getting furious; it made him work harder than anybody else. Now, it became clear that PDU30’s presidency will not only be about a drive to greatness but also about a journey into history. And even to be looked up to as the best president and the champion of the poor, it would be less a contest than a coronation.