salamat kaayo, Irineo. it’s not all the time that a candidate the likes of leni comes our way. she is so deserving of malakanyang! leni for president, kiko for vice president! magaling na tambalan.

Bloated budget which will never pass in a conscientious law making body. It was not the law abiding people who were scammed by such executive act but the budget of the country. To be funded, a barrio or barangay must submit proof that insurgency has ceased to exist in their jurisdiction. Usually with sacrificial lambs to be eliminated in total violation of human rights? OMG, Duterte truly sucks!

It’s time to elevate the level of campaign and really focus on the more serious side of the business. To touch on the issue of this article first, I think it’s not positive to talk about the possible dissolution of an office once you get to power. I say, keep mum about it in the meantime and talk later when you get the job done.

On the millennials, yes, people who have no clear understanding of what happened during the Marcos years tend to lean on the safe side. Since they are not ‘direct witnesses’ of what transpired they tend to give the benefit of the doubt on questions of placing blame. Marcos is gone, but the son looks okay, so goes the justification to give BBM the second look. He has nothing to do with the sins of his father so why fault him? So goes the reason for contemplating to vote for BBM. And there are more ridiculous claims ily and elevating their accomplishments. I say, these are strong offensives that an opposing campaign cannot handle with just ordinary videos of just about anything sweet and jolly except the seriousness of the past.

To all the parties, time to ramp up the your game by focusing on the abuses and excesses of the Marcos regime. There is no other way. Those animes, those promises of plans and programs may inform people well but it doesn’t equate to actually telling and showing them the risk and danger in putting scoundrels of the past back to power again.

So the police must have shares of funds to operate against insurgents existing or not

The young generation of today seems to be oblivious of the past due to various reasons one of which, I suspect, is lack of reading. When you don’t read about your history, you are bound to repeat the same mistakes again. It’s true, lack of reading breeds ignorance. The villains of the not so distant past gets to be superheroes before the eyes of the uninformed and illiterates. ??

There are families (some of my Pisay classmates were children of actual cronies I will not name here) that lived very well during Martial Law, and favored regions like Ilocos, though in Baguio it depends on what side of the Chico Dam conflict the family was

If people aren’t being told by their parents or lolos or lolas, then either parents (or grand) are dumb or forgetful, or they were not affected at all.

Take Pol Pot for instance. I’m sure every Cambodian knows that you get another Pol Pot, forget Tiktok. Mao is a hero, because there was never payday loans in New York a person that said he wasn’t.

It is very much family history. There are families (many in UP for instance) who suffered under oro where BBM hardly got votes even though he found it strange, but his father’s massacres there are unforgotten.