The Filipino Trump and the lack of media

It’s a shame we don’t have more coverage on this in our media. The Philippines electing Rodrigo Duterte as president is crazy but reality. Popularly nicknamed “the Filipino Trump” is an understatement and shows how little we care, trivialise and joke about these important issues.

This is the same person who vows to kill 10,000 criminals and jokes about heinous crimes such as murder and rape. Not exactly the person I want in power. However this points to a more damning issue: the desperation of people to vote in someone who seeks to remove corruption. No policy can be greater than this and people are willing to overlook some of his more brash and infamous comments and views if he is able to do exactly just that. A sad state that we are in.

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It is one thing to be anti-establishment, and another to be like Mr. Duterte. But if he can do what he sets out to do (with corruption) then I guess that is a another step of progress.

 

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