THEY GOT NOWHERE TO GO

In 2016, PDU30 with his team of leaders made a big promise. A promise that over the next 6 years of his term, the lives of millions of Filipinos are going to get better with no one left behind.

We’re now 2 years into the journey, the clock is ticking. If we off-track now, it’s going to get harder and harder to hit those goals. Based on the current direction of travel, there surely is a big amount of progress even in the midst of tremendous challenges that it faces. 

I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why there are people who sow seeds of destruction in their own country not with a bang but with a whimper. They do it by inciting an explosion of war and violence, by utterly destroying any attempt to create genuine development their society’s huge potential for growth, condemning their citizens to a lifetime of poverty.

They’re there for the benefit of elites who gain much from the extraction — whether in the form of valuable minerals, forced labor, protected monopolies, drugs, corruption — at the expense of society. Of course, such elites benefit from rigged political institutions too, wielding their power to tilt the system for their benefit.

These are the pariahs, the outcasts, more terrible, and more destructive. They have a devilish reputation, who live through fake news or old wives’ tale. They have nowhere to go and so they will bring down the country together with them into hell.