WE are doomed to another failing if, by any chance, this nation is bereft of divine meddling. 

Providential interruptions

POLITICS is a contest of influence and power, and not necessarily of ability. The influential and powerful, if pitied against a greatly skilled bureaucrat, will probably be the victor. The power of influence remains yet a significant factor in Philippine elections.

Another damning Duterte win

TURNING around an election is never remote. The public is endowed with the power to determine election results. Conscious, the public can be a potent force to effect significant change. Hence, the level of the public’s consciousness on relevant issues is critical. Its ability to discern and understand issues depends on the profundity of its reason and cause.

Indifferent Public

NEXT year’s election is a battle between the oligarch’s politics in Manila and the typically familial politics in the provinces. 

Manila oligarch giants vs the David of the provinces

THESE senate investigations are nothing but an insult to the rather “timid and passive intelligence of Filipinos,” or so these crook politicos thought of typically impassive public. As if the expressionless public are undiscerning of their equally crooked politics and endless politicking.

The better crooks

THE Global Port is the new port service operator of the Tacloban Port. It’s now the partner of Philippine Ports Authority PPA Tacloban in the maintenance, operations, and service of the Tacloban pier. However, it’s a takeover of the port management from LIPSI that comes with a tremendous surprise: new tariff rates unconscionably and so outrageously high.

Are they ‘partners’ in crime?

THE war of colors in social media has stepped up, and every day on Facebook, the battle just gets stiffer and bolder. Recent news feeds on my timeline have become a flurry of warm but fading tints of Pink to cool and calming shades of Green.

A battle among fancy shades of politics

IT’S all wordplay and rhetoric. They can call it plain giving. I call it showy, fancy kindness with a hook-line-and-sinker. It cannot be any less politicking of a sort.  

It is wrong Leny!

LOCAL politics is for the moneyed. If you’re running for councilor in a small town, at least you will need a million or two for final ops the eve before the election day. You will need 10 folds of the figure if you’re bidding for mayor. The cost of getting elected gets even higher in bigger towns and cities with scores of thousands of voters. Rumors had it that winning candidates had to invest personal money by the tens of millions. So only those moneyed get to the post.

What has become of the rare breed of leaders?

IT was a chaotic day at the Commission on Elections last Saturday, with political parties trooping in to complete their slates, hoping to firm up and solidify their chances of winning in the 2022 presidential contest.

Chaos permitted and the propensity of the self-proclaimed ‘dissent’   

The Straight Talk column by OpinYon News columnist, Roy Moraleta.

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