Beyond corrupt. Always has been. Promise the very poor and uneducated...they will follow.
Two well known strongman families. A very poor third world country.
And I’m getting the impression the human rights advocate opponent was concerned too much about the Muslim and communist guerrillas fighting in the South.
I’m more concerned with his position on relations with the USA and his views on China. I’ve made several trips to this country due to a wife from over there. The locals just sort of accept corruption like the residents of big cities in the usa. We can’t really project our values onto them. One third of that country is stunted - Which means they were malnourished and never grew to what their full height should have been. They have different values than we do, obviously.
Again, since this is FR, what is his position on the usa and china? TBH I didn’t follow this election and when my wife was, it was on on tagalog tv.
Indonesia is an Islamic craphole.
Hadn’t heard from the risible Gwynn Dyer for years. Didn’t know the old lefty lickspittle was still alive.
In any case I always enjoy watching “the people” give the finger to all the einsteins who claim to know better than they do, and would tell them who they should vote for.
> Moreover, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, to give him his real name, has virtually no accomplishments other than that name. <
Sounds a little bit like Bush II (yeah, I know he was a governor). Anyway, will Ferdinand Jr. be starting any unnecessary wars like Bush II did?
In case you’re not on this ping list.
In the land of dopey dreams
Lovely peaceful Philippines
Where the bolo man is hiking night and day
Where Tagalos steal and lie
And Americanos die
There you hear the soldiers sing this evening lay
Damn, damn, damn the Filipinos
Cross-eyed kakiack ladrones
Underneath our starry flag
Civilize ‘em with a Krag
And return us to our own beloved homes
Certainly not as shocking as the corruption related to the stolen 2020 election...
Corruption among the elite is acceptable...
Only the corruption among the poor, uneducated, down-trodden, or patriotic is bad...
I’ve been to the Philippines and worked many years with and for them.
Great people. Anybody that can eat Balut
has some “Grit”.
But their culture lacks the concept
of personal freedom and responsibility
for your failure when you exercise
those freedoms.
They don’t like to stand out from
the “Tribe”.
RE: The latter is leaving the presidency at the end of his six-year term, still wildly popular despite the many thousands of extra-judicial killings of alleged ‘drug fiends’ that he has ordered.
Well, what to say? Duterte’s extra-juducial killings of alleged “drug fiends” is EXACTLY what made him popular. Drugs are a MAJOR problem in the Philippines killing and addicting millions of people. People wanted someone to do something come hell or high water.
Unfortunately, many of those executed were either low level dealers or simply addicts. We will never know the details because none of these cases have been examined in a court of law.
Most have no close connection with those in power who could advocate for them.
A lot of the powerful drug lords with money and connections are still loose and plying their trade. I know the name of at least one rich guy from the city of Cebu ( the Philippines’ second largest city) who has never been arrested or convicted.
Once in a while, a corrupt mayor of a small town will be arrested and made an example to show that Duterte is trying to solve the problem and most would signal their approval.
The educated and upper middle class as well as clergy concentrated in the major cities mostly supported Marco’s main opponent— Leni Robredo.
However, the masses and undereducated common workers which comprised the vast majority of voters believed in the promises of Marcos and wanted a continuation of Duterte’s policies, which they see as being fulfilled in his daughter who will be the VP.
whats wrong with our country?.....fundamentally, its the people...they have become shallow, empty, material driven, sex obsessed, unread and unwise....
For the record, my wife is from Mindanao, so she’s a fan of Duterte. Nevertheless, this time around, her family voted for Manny Pacquiao, the famous boxer who was in the race.
it’s already scripted.
My in laws are Robredo backers. They knew the votes were stolen.
It’s already planned that Duterte will take over Marcos after his term is over. They have a damn law that mandates NO POLITICAL FAMILIES ca be voted on multiple times..but not enforced.
It’s like a law stating that a Clinton, bush or obama can only be president once. But who enforces it?
It is said there are 250 families who rule the RP. Then there are 5 who “reallY” rule the country from the Ayala, Conjuancgo’s etc. who literally sold their countrymen to the Japs just to save their wealth.
The stupid thing is that the youth voted for Marcos they believed that IF they voted for him, they would go back to the same 1970’s era where the US$ WAS AT PAR WITH THE PESO.
and yet everypone knows Bongbong KNEW his family still has BILLIONS OF US dollars unaccounted for.
That’s how stupid Filipinos are. That’s why it will be a third world sh*thole for decades more.
Not so different from Biden, except the big money came after he got into politics (and unfortunately nobody was ever able to exile him).
We're not really in a position to cast stones right now.
Leni was seen as an American puppet supported by the CIA, the rich families, the leftist students and the Franciscatholics. She came across as a snob and she only got her job because her populist husband died in a plane crash so she got the sympathy vote, and thanks to voting machine irregularities won the VP over Marcos.
Here the workers and farmers supported Marcos because they remember his father made the country prosperous before the communists got aggressive and he started shooting innocent people.
Marcos is backed by some Evangelicals, many in the business community, and most of the working class in our area...
As for Dutertes drug killings...those crying over them ignored people killed by drug addicted robbers or violent attacks when someone high on shabu killed a family member or girlfriend. Also in the statistics are payback murders where families couldn't get justice.
Statistically crime went down and the murder rate only went up bit. My daughter in law says she now feels safe traveling on buses or walking the streets in Manila.