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DO SOMETHING and DO IT NOW Butuanons and Agusanons!

May 22nd, 2007 by kurt-jumpman23

Copied from Armelo Beluan:

I’ll just reword or rephrase what I’ve
been rambling about all along, ma sa
friendster or sa inuman. I’ll make it
this time clear as crystal. (Pero
please react naman dito sa friendster
because mahirap makipagtunggali sa
texting.)

What were my observations so far:
1. A true democracy is based on a
strong middle class — strong in the
sense that it is the majority.

2. A democracy based on the poor
majority is mob rule. Do I have to
explain this? They have a tendency to
sell out their votes. And if one is
hungry, one cannot really participate
in any debate, much less in a
discussion about nationalism.

3. Ok, the impoverished may sense a
iota of nationalism in them but it’s
the I’m-really-a-nationalist-and-
Pimentel-is-really-a-good-lawyer-but-I-
want-some-free-beer kind of
nationalism.

4. By selling out their votes, they
really make a statement. A strong one,
at that. And it’s for us to figure
out. I’ve been trying to figure that
out for years. Ha, it turned out to be
commonsensical: Gutom e. You vote with
your stomach.

5. Some of the middle class, in
collusion with the high class, are
part of the political/ruling class.
Man, this has implications. It means
that the minority middle class is
doing something hardcore and obscene
to the impoverished majority to
preserve the whole setup or crap. The
middle class keeps itself minor and at
once, also maintains the impoverished
majority.

5. I have a gut sense it is useless
for the middle class to influence the
elections by voting. The only purpose
of voting on the part of the middle
class is symbolic — that is, to make
a statement and to be a model of
participation. But statistically, in
our setup, it is useless. Hence, it
opted to influence the vote in some
other ways, legit or not legit.

6. Examples: vote-buying, block-
voting, special-interest lobbying,
assasinations, bomb threats, etc.

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read more of his thoughts in :

http://meloinks.blogs.friendster.com/my_blog/

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my own message to the readers:

I know that the local election is over. But If you readers want a positive change in our Philippine politics, then do something for a better change.

We should not wait for the ELECTION-FEVER-INFECTED MONTHS that usually start  months/weeks before the elections ( just like what happened recently) to act, express, complain and voice out our opinions on the government( national/local), on social and political issues.

It is not fair to just complain over and over and over again to our government officials . It is unfair to just complain only to the alleged output of the elections and alleged corruptions yet not doing anything to help government officials and most especially citizens themselves. You only “COMPLAIN”. Nothing more, nothing less and it stops there.

On my personal observation, it is not the politicians alone that should be blamed on the flows of our electoral system. And it is really unfair to blame them alone. The electorate, the voters should also blamed.

BEFORE, the politicians buy votes from the voters.
NOW, the voters sell their votes to the politicians.

There is no statistical data to support this claim, but I believe that the votes of vote-selling voters clearly outnumbers the votes of educated voters.

If you are/will be an EDUCATED VOTER, like YOU,like ME, like THEM, let US transform VOTE-SELLING VOTERS to be like us.

Our helplessness, let-them-do-it-all, Bahala-na-sila kind of thinking will only feed the the pockets and wallets of our power hungry politicians.

DO SOMETHING and DO IT NOW.

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