Comments on: “A Message of Modern Politics” by Randy David

By: nosibalasi

nosibalasi — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:24:08 +0000

lets vote for noynoy :)

By: nosibalasi

nosibalasi — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:23:24 +0000

lets vote for villar :)

By: nosibalasi

nosibalasi — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:22:47 +0000

let’s vote for erap :)

By: Joe America

Joe America — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:25:04 +0000

macapili,

Interesting point. Supposedly democracy requires an educated public, to discern when they are being bamboozled or to sort out complex issues. I think the US is getting dumbed down by reality shows and sound-bite popular “news” aimed at garnering ratings. Therefore it’s democracy resembles a back alley cat fight. The Philippines is more like union elections, or mafia elections; you do what ‘da local boss say.

Joe

By: Joe America

Joe America — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 04:20:32 +0000

UP n,

Thanks for the elaboration. I always wondered why there were so many generals here, when there are not really many foreign wars on the horizon, so the enemy must be within, or perceived to be within, eh?

Randy David is a neo-Nationalist, and so I find his thinking is sometimes a bit scary. Like, he would go back before going forward . . .

Joe

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:27:41 +0000

I know you, macapili, I have no argument with you. You are a good man. Unlike the ‘elitists’ who think undergrads are inferior people than the degree holders. Well, UP n is a good man too, I’m his admirer (eherm). He’s ‘elite’ so not an ‘elitist’. Just can’t help speaking my mind out loud because the masa where my heart belongs has been mentioned in a bad light.

By: macapili

macapili — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 14:38:13 +0000

Obviously, you are not illiterate and perhaps have a property and paid taxes. I remember when Magsaysay ran for the presidency, my mother had to laboriously teach our maid to write “Recto”, because the Batanguenos needed all the votes they could muster in a town in Zambales where my parents earned their living by running a store in the public market. I am not suggesting that illiteracy, lack of property or non-payment of taxes should be a ground for disenfranchisement, because that would lead to what the leftists call “democratic centralism.” I am only trying to show the relation between the quality of electors and the elected.

By: mario taporco

mario taporco — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:54:55 +0000

joe,

We Filipinos have to many egos to look at. For one thing, we do have over 170 languages, and these common people have plenty to argue about, whos the brightest of them all. You get the idea.

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:50:10 +0000

I’m with the masa, you see :).

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:42:43 +0000

No. A masteral or a doctorate is no guarantee of good governance that will take us out of this rut we’re in. If Marcos or GMA be any indication, or the others that have been up there before them, we should be wary of such. That is not to say that good academic education is the problem, no, not at all. It’s mainly the personality and character of the person of course. But Philippine political history and statistics should have taught us a good lesson already.