The D Spot

The 2010 elections will most probably be a rehash—again—of experiences of elections past. Save for automation in the coming election, the storylines and the characters in Philipppine elections will hardly change. Vote-buying, election related scandals and anomalies, election related violence and many more—you get the picture? The Hello Garci tapes and the stronghold of the Ampatuans in Maguindanao are only side stories to the bigger picture of the kind of politics we have in the country.

There is something grievously and monstrously wrong about how our political system works and our collective mentality towards politics, which we consider always in conjunction with the adjective “dirty,” though the Greeks who coined the term “politics” never intended it to be so associated. The mockery we make of our electoral processes prove this point. Countless of times have we seen it in the national and local elections—the popular, the rich, the powerful, and the well-connected and oftentimes even the incompetent candidates win! We are practically run by “trapos” and political dynasties bent on seeking and keeping power over and above the collective good, thus leading to and feeding off of systemic and pervasive corruption in government and all levels of our society, much to the detriment of the Filipino people.

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