what's wrong...?

What's wrong with Philippine elections?
One is tempted to answer:

EVERYTHING.!!!

To begin with,
we have no real major political parties
that have differentiated platforms and
that abide by certain articulated principles.

Election campaigns are not ISSUE-oriented.
There is hardly any discussion of issues,
except perhaps on TV or
in other public forums
where candidates are asked about their stand
on certain matters.
But often, there is no IN-DEPTH discussion

or debate

because of the limited time and
the number of candidates that have to be questioned.

The high cost of campaigns effectively limits the field to

billionaires, &
millionaires...

This means that poor
but qualified candidates have very little chance of winning,
unless they are supported with donations
by the people themselves..

The billionaires and
millionaires will naturally want to recoup their expenses,
and guess where the "reimbursement'' will come from?

Pork barrel,

special funds and

projects funded with the people's money.

Because campaign expenses are high, some candidates accept donations
from smuggling lords, gambling lords, drug lords and rich businessmen.
Once the recipients are elected, they have to pay back their debts to
the donors in the form of special privileges, "projects" and
concessions --

the law,
MORALITY and
propriety be damned.

The political and religious "command vote" practice treats voters as
mindless, driven cattle that are supposed to follow the dictates of
their leaders and not their minds and conscience. Among the religious
organizations whose support is openly courted by candidates are the

Iglesia ni Cristo and

El Shaddai.

The quid pro quo is that winning candidates are asked to give
lucrative concessions as well as important appointive posts in
government to members of the religious organization. Is this a good
way to run a government?


and candidates and their supporters think that elective posts are
literally something to die for because they are sources of great
wealth, power and influence.

Another accepted fact during elections is

cheating.!!! (vote.buyings.ph)

There used to be an "acceptable level" of cheating but it has
developed from the
"retail" level to the
"wholesale" level,
and some officials of the Commission on Elections (Comelec),
who are supposed to guard the sanctity of the ballot...

These peculiar features of Philippine elections
raise the question of whether they are really a
democratic,
free and
intelligent exercise of the right of suffrage.

The fact is that the voters themselves have
tolerated them and
have not protested loudly and
strongly enough against them.
The voters themselves
have to take the lead in

cleansing and

reforming

the electoral process.
They cannot leave this task to government officials and
politicians who benefit from the present system.

But when will an honest-to-goodness,
sustained reform action start?!!!!!!




....
inq7
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HOW CAN WE BE PROUD AS PINOYS
WHERE ARE THE MAYAYABANGS OR
THE BRIGHTEST OF PINOYS?!!


GODSPEED



it's the game of survival
simply the play of animals. (be kind to animals)

what a shame :(nakakahiya!


so
What's wrong with philippines?

EVERYTHING.!!!




IT'S PAYTIME
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let the history be the judge...




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