Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Hugpong---- a Party for Duterte and for what?

HUgpong, a regional party created by supporters of Davao city mayor Sara Duterte is fast consolidating itself not just as a regional powerhouse, but moreso, as a national political party. What ideology does it pursue, we simply don't know. What it is is another personality-based political aggrupation which dissipates as soon as the personality disappears.

Such tribal approach to political organisation seemed too ingrained in Filipino political culture that we just can't help but remember the Kilusang Bagong Lipunan or KBL of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The KBL was formed simply as a mass base support structure by Marcos in support of the dictatorship. In other countries, people form political parties around certain ideological beliefs. In the Philippines, it is the other way around--people form first then, ideologies later. What a shame!

What we can glean from Hugpong is this-- it is a regional party of Davao city mayor Sara, now a popular national personality according to surveys. Since Sara, according to news reports, is not interested in pursuing either a Congressional or Senatorial post, we can assume that this party is being prepared for 2022-- when she runs for the presidency to succeed his father.

Now what they intend to do with our country, we simply don't know exactly. What we can only do is make presumptions--- since the Dutertes are known for managing their territories using strong arm tactics which somewhat overstep the bounds of rationality and morality, expect such things also from Sara, albeit, according to several apologies, in a tempered manner, dissimilar with the father's.

I simply don't know if by 2022 or even as early as 2019, the people still want to continue this mismanagement of the economy, the rampant graft and corruption happening being led by Mr. Duterte's close friends, the breakdown of peace and order due to poverty and high price of goods. I simply don't presume that people are essentially happy of what is happening here. People are leaving these shores in droves while overseas Filipinos are thinking twice of sending their monies here.

If these people still win by 2019 in a clean way, then, that will be the day that I will think of really migrating and looking at this country from the lens of an outsider. This country seriously needs some uplifting and these liberalist things happening don't necessarily do us good.


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