By Jan Eidrienne De Luis
Big tarpaulins, TV advertisements, free t-shirts and other
things that seem to greet people happy fiesta or to just advertise a program or
a product inundate the metro and the media.
The campaign period has not officially started yet but it’s
obviously in the fast lane.
Our culture and kind tradition has been tainted by these
political ballyhoos and shenanigans. A year before the elections everything is
tarnished with malice that seemingly
insult the intellectual caliber of the Filipino people or at most times
take advantage of benighted citizens.
Not only the display of humongous faces and names is
extremely appalling, but also the emergence of celebrity-turned-political
candidates—not to mention some ill-repute ones in the world of show business.
If someone runs for a spot in the legislature, one must be
equipped with sufficient knowledge of the different policies on the creation of
laws or even the legislative proceedings. One can argue that these are lore and
that it can be acquired by the human intellect through experience. Well of
course that could happen, but for a third-world country, the Filipino people
cannot wait for someone to be able to test the fast and loose waters of congress.
Think of it this way, many bills both from the upper-chamber and the
lower-chamber are being contested and disputed because of its precipitousness
and lack of substance and background research, because of this some congressmen
had gotten the ire of the citizens, with some being derided as politically
ignorant for they are just actors-turned-politicians.
Also, the candidates’ family name does not speak of his
serving caliber as a person. One must remember this.
The question of who seated them in office is a huge bludgeon
to the masses. Will we allow more
monkeys to sit in the precious seats of the Batasang Pambasa and make
monkey-laws that will eventually govern monkey citizens and will turn the place
into monkey-land? A state governed by monkeys in the most monkey way will yield
into the emergence of more monkeys worst than the monkey kings. If this
persists then soon we will have shortage of bananas.
The Filipino people must understand that what they see in teledramas is not real. They must know how
to shield themselves from knaveries served to them with tender, love and care.
Still education is very crucial and significant for we determine the future of
the country through our votes. We are the fountainhead of the government of the
Philippines for we settle who sits and who goes. In a deeper sense of the
democratic and republican ideologies, we are the government
Apathy has no place in the Filipino hearts especially as
2013 goes closer and closer. We must verify the words that come out of the well-sugared
mouths of the candidates because it is only through background-checking and
keen observation that we can sort out the sourness or the appalling halitosis
lying beneath.
The Philippine policies on running for public office are
very democratic. It allows a showbiz mother to run for congress as long as she
has the means to do so and if she is of the right age.
Democracy is good but it often contributes to the downfall
of most states, because democracy by its own political sense acknowledges man
as a rational being—capable of understanding concepts and ideas, capable of
good logical reasoning and through this must man use his freedom. It gives us
the full pledged right to be free, to use this freedom in making sense of
things, to use it in a rational way as we human beings are naturally
intellectual beings.
Are we going to be prisoners of our own ignorance? Or are we
going to inculcate the intellectual freedom and power that our constitution
vested upon us?
Vote FREELY then.
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