It’s a welcome six-day break from the Impeachment Trial that’s proving to be such a trial, too, for us who just want to see and hear the evidence so we can make up our own minds. It’s also quite trying, being confronted with Senator-Judges shamelessly inappropriately defending, practically trolling for, the respondent instead of trying, or pretending man lamang, to keep an open mind. Why can’t they wait ’til the end when they get to explain their votes? Patience is a virtue, ika nga.
Meanwhile puwede munang pag-ukulan ng pansin ang pre-SONA noise vs. PBBM coming from the Left and the DDS and INC.
The Left has long demanded that both BBM and VP Sara resign and give way to a broad-coalition “transition council” representative of the masses and marginalized. The DDS and INC have long demanded only the ouster | resignation of BBM a la EDSA ’86, with the help of the military and people power, so that VP Sara can take over.
But neither the Left’s “transition council” nor a Sara Duterte presidency will bring about the CHANGE we so badly need. Everything they’re throwing against Bongbong — the corruption in government, the economic crisis, the flood-control scandal — started long before his term. There are no quick fixes. There are too many critical issues and policies over which we are divided, nay, fractured into factions. If we really want CHANGE that the masses, and not just the few, will benefit from, kailangan nating magkaisa, magkaintindihan, mag-usap nang walang pinoprotektahan at isinasaalang-alang except the common good. And we’re a long long way from that.
And so for now, because BBM is the duly-elected President, thanks or no-thanks to the Dutertes, I wish him a good SONA. May all his promises come true. #exhaustednotdemented