Fiipinos strive for the same thing---change

I just can't seem to figure out the logic. Why is Mr. Duterte trying very hard to create a radicalised milieu?

Our economy is supposed to be lifting itself up and up but with all these uncertainties in the air, how do we expect foreign investors to park their monies here?

Mr. Duterte thinks the NPAs and the Communists are pests. And they have inhabited our forests risking their lives for more than fifty years.

Some of us would say, they are destabilisers and others, patriots. Whatever you think they are, one thing is certain--most of these people belong to the most illustrious sub-sector of our society, talented and intelligent young men and women who believe and hope that someday, our society, our country change for the better.

And who doesn't? Every single one of us long for change. Millions of us here and millions of us outside these lands cry for change. We have been enslaved by colonialism for 300 years and more, and we have been in poverty for all our lives. We need a respite to all these sufferings which our mighty God had given us to make us strong and resilient.

By treating the Communists as terrorists, and as enemies of the state, what are we trying to tell the world? That we do not subscribe to their longing for change? What is so different from what they want and what we want?

They think the system is being dominated by oligarchs. Do we not believe the same thing? This system perpetuates a cycle of oppression that puts a great majority of our people at risk by depriving them of economic opportunities, do we not think the same way?

We cannot move forward as a nation if we fight amongst ourselves. There is no single ideology in the world that truly points us to the right direction----only the most scientific of these ideologies.

Hence, no one can claim that he is right.

While the rest of the world worry themselves over where to invest their monies or how to spend their vacations, here we are, fighting amongst ourselves, fellow Filipinos, fighting over power, and the spoils of it.

We are fighting who gets what, and who gets to kiss the ass of whom. And for what?

For the riches a position brings? For the public adulation and Philistinistic welcome we get when we are in power? For the prize of fame, we sacrifice hundreds of lives in order for our smallest contribution to the betterment