This
morning, October 11, was the start for the filing of Certificate of Candidacy for those
aspiring for public office. It is natural for our eyes and brain to see and
interpret only those candidates that we’re interested in and then focused on
them alone. But we have to bear in mind that many Filipinos are hurting right
now and we’re in the same boat as they are and that boat, we’re going to sink
and swim together if we fail again in the coming election.
Many Filipinos remember growing up in a time when
people assumed that if a candidate proclaims something in discourse it was
true. That era is gone, and faith in the candidates belongs to the nostalgia
for a vanished forgotten past.
Distrust towards the
candidates especially in the Senatorial position is, of course, deeply rooted
in much broader now and that we have to vote for those in favor of FEDERALISM
to ensure social justice and equality among us. Quantitatively as well, again
and again, do not sell your vote because if you do, it can never make a heaven
out of hell but always find its echo into hell out of heaven. Do not vote for a
candidate who combined "the arrogance of power, with the arrogance of
mind.
Any hope of
change can be reached only if the elected and appointed public officials can
make the political power rest on truth. Paradoxically, the "credibility
gap" may contain the seeds of its own destruction.
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