“WTF!?!” Comes to mind when something like this mindless thing keeps coming out. We go about this, over and fucking over and over.

YOU want this country to be FUCKING better? Well, IT AIN’T GONNA if we’re going to keep on escalating WAR between ourselves or thinking CRAP. Before anybody go all high and mighty and be personal: I’m NOT at all saying, let bygones be bygones BUT our WOUNDED PRIDE, OUR PROBLEM with Gloria— isn’t about her or her family. Remove their names and it will be somebody else betraying us over. The cycle will go on, and on, like an Evil Energizer Bunny.

What’s our problem? IT is about A SYSTEM that is FUCKING FLAWED!!!

I want to break the cycle. Don’t you? I assume every good Filipino does. Everyone is SO sick of all the bloody negativity, all the stupid antics, all the garbage— from media, from both sides of the aisle. We should all be puking it out.

So, do you want to listen?

Have you people EVER stopped to consider why none of the bloody IMPEACHMENT complaints never gained ground? FUCKING simple: Members of Congress are mostly with the Administration! HOW’D they get there? How else in a democracy? They GOT ELECTED. Why’d these people get elected? Because:

1. nobody RAN from the opposition, hence no bloody choice,
2. people had USE for their congressmen, and
3. because between the devil they know and the devil they don’t, people would logically choose the devil they know!
4. And even if someone from the opposition ran, are they offering a different KoolAid than Arroyo’s bunch is? Same Shit, Different Band.

YOU Want a country that works. We need to GET good people to run. How the HELL is that going to EVER happen? Well, we need real Political Parties. Real grass roots-based Political Parties that elect their own nominees, that would support their chosen Flag bearer, who ARE for the people. Not this SHAM every party in this country have that elects only members from the same old boys club.

We need new blood!

We need people from ALL walks of life running for public office BECAUSE they think it is about CIVIC DUTY. We need political parties that NOMINATE candidates from within their party— real people, not the same old for the boys club.

You can laugh that this all pure speculation, all pure idealism. I point you to the current Pampanga Governor, who was a priest. He had no party, no money, nothing. He won because of grassroots support. Because REAL people believed in him. Anybody who can duplicate the same but across the entire nation, in every town, in every city, in every province, in every region will have the greatest opportunity to change things.

Instead of wasting resources organizing street protests, I STRONGLY urge EVERY CIVIC group, every MEMBER of the Filipino Diaspora, if you truly believe in Change, to band together and PREPARE for 2010. IF YOU truly believe in CHANGE, let US be the instrument of that CHANGE. Set aside all this talk about special prosecutors and revenge towards the Arroyos. For as long as the status quo remains, for as long as the old boys club of Philippine politics is in effect, it doesn’t matter who lives in the Palace. We can not change laws. We can not remove those who do not deserve to be in power through impeachment. But we need the mechanism to do so, and we have it: through an election.

It may or may not be an Arroyo in 2010, but someone else can and will repeat the same mistakes, if we do not change how we choose our leaders. And this bloody country will never, ever change.

The answer is so simple. Empower people. really, really, empower them. Break the status quo. For all the talk Lozada, Estrada, Aquino, the Church have in the past few months about Truth, for all that your generation, and the generations before and my generation owe our people, and our children’s children for our hand in all this, for all the righteous anger, we all feel towards this mindless thing our politics has become, for all the disgust we have with the cycle of greed and apathy our people, so rightly, so justly feel, we must act.

Everyone wants to break the unending cycle. It ENDS when we use the RULES that we already have— ELECTION to vote people in. But we ALSO need good choices, not just elections. We NEED good people. We need a politics of Inclusion, and NOT use them as pawns and cannon fodder. When WE have enough power in Congress, when WE control the Senate, and the Palace, go right ahead and make all the special prosecutors you want. Maybe this time, it won’t be like the PCGG of the past. May be this time someone will go to jail.

If you think, I’m wrong: I strongly urge you to give positive ideas. Something new, something different, something that would give people like me hope that there are people far wiser, far more eloquent, with better ideas who are actually thinking about solving real problems and not just the same tired old thing, the same old tired arguments, the same old negativity.

By creating a system whereby Ordinary Filipinos can participate even more so in our election process, when ordinary Filipinos can SEE living proof that real change can and is happening, we can move this country forward. We give them more than hope, we give them more than optimism, we give them action because we can.

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