PRES. MARCOS, JR, HAS A DIFFERENT MINDSET

My issue with Pres. Marcos, Jr is his reputation as the Lord of the skies as he always travels to foreign countries over the heads of unsuspecting people with reckless abandon. The question is, whether or not he is trying to decide this based on what's best for the nation in the here and now, but oftentimes overlooking some more important issue which shouldn’t be overlooked? As an aside, I noticed Pres. Marcos is fun of using this phrase in his interviews, which is: “I LOOK AT THE SITUATION IN A DIFFERENT WAY.”

Indeed, Mr. Marcos has a different mindset in looking at things. Meaning, he valued acceptance and popularity towards foreigners more than the frightening times our country is facing.  And I may venture to say that he would not really back down from playing fast and loose with the issue of corruption. Clearly, Mr. Marcos is drawing a dichotomy between his faith to the foreigners to save our country, and that of rationality. For me, our faith must be based on what is reasonable, kind of —believe in yourself first and that the idea that people, regardless of who they are, and where they come from, matter.

We keep worshipping at the altar of America and European countries. We're blindly wedded to a set of lofty principles that everybody else in the world already ignored and considered them as self-centered. We think it's always a beautiful ideal to worship these foreign countries and wait for their blessed occasion. We’re getting short of breath already from running uphill to gain their mercy and charity. We've stuck with this silly notion that it's a mortal sin to ignore America and Europe as our savior when in truth we're the ones who are out of step today. Mr. Marcos is a person who didn't understand at least to a large extent that our country is now in a situation where it is going to be Armageddon we are facing with a sense of the clock ticking.

Let me be blunt, until we fix the problem of corruption, it's going for us to make less and less sense for our country to recover. Right now, we're falling behind and fast because of corruption. We must take our eye off the ball away from America and the European countries and get ourselves together in solving corruption.