by Maria Bratikova

How is it that some of us claim that Marcos wouldn’t have been elected without the Vice President? If she were such a massive voter-magnet why didn‘t she run for the Presidency?

Oh, the President used her, didn‘t he?
Are we sure? Who was used by whom?In fact, I didn‘t care either way if she ran for the Presidency and PBBM the veepee. At that time they were either-or to me.Interchangeable. They were a Uniteam. One for the other and vice versa.

So we find ourselves, again, in a situation where the veepee is the agitator grande. Let‘s be clear: she is not the President. Whatever
you belatedly say about the last presidential election‘s result – the fact is PBBM was sworn in as President.

Nothing is perfect, even I can see that.
But so is democracy. Let‘s put the kibosh to and on our infantile and
juvenile bickerings. Let patriotism prevail.

After all, one‘s love for country should
override and over write our biases and
tendencies to personality cultism.

Tschüss und gute Nacht!

In a twist fit for UNDAS (day of the dead), DDS loyalists are lamenting the “death” of their movement’s spirit—only for it to be miraculously resurrected by none other than Rodrigo Duterte himself. 

DDS blogger Mark Anthony Lopez announced this macabre revival after Duterte’s Senate appearance on the war on drugs, calling it a rebirth of their once “dead” devotion. 

How poetic, right? Like zombies clawing their way out of the political graveyard, the DDS has apparently found its second wind. Perhaps Duterte’s Senate cameo was the undead jolt they needed, summoning forth ghosts of the movement’s peak years. UNDAS, after all, is a time to remember the dead, even if some can’t seem to stay buried. But let’s just hope this revival doesn’t drag us back to the graveyard of authoritarian nostalgia. 

For now, though, the DDS seems to have found its Halloween costume: a zombie movement in need of a new crusade.