FILIPINO: How DIGNIFIED are You?

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FILIPINO: How DIGNIFIED are You?

In my Social Psychology class we were talking about how to be persuasive in which an example of an extremely negative publication AD campaign against Tom Jefferson during the Presidential Race (between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams-incumbent President in the year 1800) saying the US will become a nation of violence, it will be painted with blood everywhere, women’s chastity will be violated and so on and so forth if Jefferson will win the election actually gave light to the minds of the people that persuaded them to make a study of this new guy, dig deeper into his personality and capability ending them to make a wise choice of voting Tom Jefferson as President and eventually won the highest position in the USA in year 1800. 

Today in our present battle of injustice, criminality, drugs and corruption in our beloved country Philippines, the same old dirty techniques of negative publicity have been used against our chosen candidate Mayor Rody Duterte and Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano from other “V/Presidentiables”. (Other candidates may have some good side too). And it’s time for us to know them better. We have the reason now to examine who these personalities are; these very individuals courting our precious votes to be casted for them. What kind of person s/he really is, what s/he is capable of, what s/he has done in the past that makes her/him strong enough to lead the nation, how consistent and strong her/his political will to get the nation out of the filth of undisciplined constituents, corrupt government officials, uncontrolled drugs and languishing poverty that continue to haunt us from generations. 
This is the time for us to tell the nation what we need. A leader of all flaws but able to understand the lowest and silent woes of the poorest of the poor that often ignored by those who lends ears to them only during election times and forgets them when all has been sacked from them, those whose justice was denied because they are not one from the influential families, and those which food is always a dreamlike notion to them due to poverty. It is a moral obligation for us to tell the Filipino people what we need is a real man not of words but of actions: someone; when s/he says s/he will, s/he will do it, not because of the money s/he can get from our country’s treasure but what s/he can offer as a public servant. A candidate who spends much will likely to take it back from us. That’s the rule of reciprocity. 
No amount of money can get us through the change we are so aiming for decades ago if we sell our dignity to those individuals hunger of power but not of change and nation’s improvement. What we can earn from this game will not improve our lifestyle but will consume us for the next 6 years and again what? WE will run back to EDSA with the banner against injustice, crimes and corruptions, drugs, (you name it) and cry to the top of our lungs “WE HAVE BEEN DECEIVED”? NOT ANYMORE! Do not throw this hope that we have to the pigs and accepts their dirty earned money to buy your principles. You will taste the awful fruit of that deceit. And the worst thing is you will drag everyone with you to suffer along for the next 6years. And so I say “NO” TO VOTE BUYING! Don’t sell our future.

Author: Maria Shila Clarion Caraan
OFW-Dubai, United Arab Emirates

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