We keep voting for the wrong people to lead us.
LEARNN
So let them win at least!
MOREE
The smart Filipinos are almost not interested in running for office or applying for government jobs.
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Most are fleeing for jobs outside the country.
Only the greedy and power-hungry people run for office these days.
MY BIO
But then they do it for the salary and the backroom deals they can get with it.
LINKKK”K”
Oh yeah - when did your barangay official last do something for the community? But there is nothing in my barangay.
They build waiting sheds and basketball courts, do roadside "beautification" projects here and there, hold festivals etc. And worse than that, almost all those things come with large posters and signs advertising the local official. It's as if it was their money that they spent on these projects instead of our taxes.
All the funds are not used to construct garbage collection systems, parks, infrastructure, libraries, or create livelihood industries. None. All our cities have no real landmarks. All we have are godawful, deformed cement "monuments" and brain-dead, lifeless "I LOVE" giant letters. Even our national airport is a bustling hub!
But when compared to the driven and visionary politicians of those early years post-independence, all of the modern politicians today are just average. Politicians today lack imagination, forward thinking and initiative. There is no pride in their work whatsoever. They just push paper around and photograph babies. I doubt they know how other countries are run either. Weird, because they usually come from families that have visited better-run countries abroad and come home knowing absolutely nothing. They leave the office the same way they found it - or worse. Zero progress.
Worse than that: they create dynasties that rule for decades. By violence and intimidation, they oust far more deserving leaders. This is just one example - the Maguindanao massacre of the Ampatuan clan.
Some politicians break that mold. Mostly younger ones. They're rare, though.
For context: We created industries and products like nata de coco, large-scale macapuno production, warmwater seaweed production, beer production in Asia, water buffalo dairy farming, tropical coffee farming, and buri palm millinery and weaving. But in the last two decades, China and Indonesia are the biggest producers of those resources, not us. There were so many things we did first in Asia. So where did all these things go - from universities to commercial airliners, newspapers and television, various factories, the theater and movie industry, the auto industry, electric trams, nuclear power plants...
I cannot remember when anyone built new infrastructure like irrigation canals or dams. Our province has no NFA rice warehouses. Government project buildings are rotting or ruined. A project to start a sheep industry near our town was even started in the 70s or 80s. I remember seeing sheep in it as a kid in the 90s. Now it is a rusting shed.
I hoped it was Duterte. He said he would give trains (after decades!), a subway system, the development of provincial cities, other parts of the Philippines besides NCR). Yet so few made it through. His time was spent on backstabbing and jailing his critics, his idiotic drug war, and pretending China was a threat. So even Marawi remains in ruins - red tape abounds and political clans fight each other.
Marcos had similar visionary plans. But once again he drank the poison of power and ultranationalism.
I vow to vote for young people next time, and preferably non-political dynasties. I got sick of the TraPo. If that fails, I am leaving the country.
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