Brewing revolution in Philippines

I just read a Deloitte Philippines survey on Filipino millennials. Like what I shared with you my dear readers a year or two ago, trust with institutions is going steadily southward, as people are getting further impatient with the way things are being managed on the socio-political and economic sphere. The ongoing financial and economic malaise is starting to affect the lives of millennials. And the overwhelming perception is that politics has something to do with it. That explains why millennials regard authority figures as negative influencers.

I will not anymore discuss the results of the survey and one can find it here at this link: https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1134127/ph-millennials-have-low-trust-in-political-leaders-journalists-says-study. What this survey shows is that the Filipino youth is beginning to rouse from its stupor. They know the problem and they are trying to find a personal solution on these problems.

The thing right now is that there are a few outlets by which millennials can actively go to to satiate that desire to do something. Formalized institutions such as the National Youth Commission (NYC) or the Kabataang Barangay (KB) are perceived negatively and even contributory to the problems. The ongoing issue against former NYC chair Ronald Cardema has effectively negated the Commission as the legitimate venue for youth expressions. Instead of helping the NYC recover from years of negative perception, Cardema actually harmed or injured the body permanently.

I surmise that a segment of this sector is already radicalized by non-state actors in their respective localities. The worse thing about this is the possibility of this segment veering towards syndicated criminal groups which promises both personal and social upliftment. This is already being noticed by police authorities as more members of the youth are either being arrested or killed during drug sting operations.

Revival of the Opposition

Dont write the opposition off--not at this point.

The legitimate oppositionist group, the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is now at an excellent position to provide a net for this radicalized youth segment. As admitted by the chair of the state's National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA), the state is losing in the propaganda war and this is expected since the poster boy of the oligarchs and political opportunists, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte is losing his political capital fast what with his flip-flopping in the China issue and the ongoing water and power crises. Charges of corruption are compounding these crises and inevitably, these things will surely come to a head sooner or later.

However, the CPP must realize that for it to achieve its objectives, the Party may need to review its current socio-economic and political analysis and conform it with the times. I will not expand this further.

Last elections, the Liberal Party was able to effectively organize more than 150,000 volunteers, majority of them members of the youth sector. As I told my friend over there, this is somewhat a surety because the LP can organize these youth sector members as frontliners in LP activities and train them as their future leaders.