The average Filipino right now is a laborer, either working in the construction industry or in agriculture. He just finished elementary and has worked early to provide for his family. If he's living in the urban areas, he's probably engaged as a unskilled worker or sweating it out in some service company, either as a janitor, or waiter or hired hand.
The average Filipino is NOT a college graduate. Only a few, about 4 percent of the entire adult population, are college graduates. With that figure, only about 5 million work legally or illegally abroad either as domestics, laborers, construction workers or medical staff.
Now, why do I write these things here?
Two reasons: I'm currently studying the best tactics on how to trigger aggressive reaction from the masses and two, what's the best language to apply for them to realize that they need politics to change their current State of Affairs.
This urge to study this stemmed from one question---why is there no successful mass-based revolt in the Philippines? Apart from the first EDSA, nothing has come out of attempts to rouse the masses to revolt. What would frustrate people enough to justify aggressive action?
to have a successful change in power, they need money, a leader and the will to succeed with or without bloodshed.
ReplyDeletemoney is needed to finance the troops, arms and people to rally for them. lets face it, a lot of edsa 2 and 3 rallyists (am not saying all) were paid to go to the streets. to this day, the poor people have grown and this can be tapped.
why can't we tap these poor people? lack of funds. this new government im sure has been planning this for years. how long has gen. danny lim been jailed? most likely, shelling out money by those who want change has started way before gen. lims attempt to remove arroyo from office. i think these revolutionists have forked out a lot of money already for a group who can only plan. they must have burned these connections from all these said attempts with no success.
the only ones left with money to throw are the few opposition members who are currently holding positions in government. why won't they tap these people? again, because they want real change. it's just like exchanging estrada for arroyo. what good did it do to our country? we still have that filipino trait of "utang na loob". go to them for help and they may ask a favor later on they can't say no to.
arroyo is a ruthless leader. to oust a ruthless leader, one must be even more ruthless. this regime has learned from the past mistakes of marcos and estrada. they now cut the earnings of the opposition, they cut off media coverage, and they cut off rallyists enroute to manila. they disperse groups that may grow into a mass they won't be able to get rid of.
the only way to succeed is to use whatever means to reach a goal. forget those corrupt officials offering money in exchange for power in the new government. these officials have been biting us in the ass, it's time someone bites back. look at them as a means to an end.
druglords are there because there are people willing and wanting to buy drugs. corrupt officials are there because of people willing to pay them off in exchange for a deal beneficial to them. even a simple payola to get your drivers license real quick is corruption. it may be small, but these little things snowballed into what our country is today.
i like the idea of having idealistic minds for a change. maybe having such a mind paired with an iron fist may instill the discipline we filipino people need.
In additon to my previous comment about bloodshed, please don't get me wrong. I said that because this regime will stop at nothing to cover its dirty tracks and stay in power, as evidenced by pushing cha-cha or martial law/rule if needed. Peaceful turnover is still the best scenario. Again, a ruthless leader needs an even more ruthless ouster.
ReplyDeleteGod bless us all.
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