no respect for the Constitution, and no regard for the incalculable time and effort the Filipino people have invested in the building of a free and democratic nation over the last 123 years. The idea is tantamount to an admission of our failure as a republic.
In contrast, the last five years of the Duterte presidency have been marked by the sheer ascendancy of a pre-modern local politician who knows almost nothing about the challenges of modern statecraft, and, even less, of the imperatives of political leadership in a globally interconnected world. His mass followers and admirers worship him for his unadorned eccentricity and willful defiance of political convention.
The extensive use of English by those who were fortunate enough to go to school hastened the modernization of the Filipino middle class and their insertion into the circuits of the global economy. But the cost of this has been the further exclusion of the vast majority who were already being pushed to the margins by the forces of a dualistic economy.
Benedict Anderson’s concept of the nation as an “imagined community” bound by a deep comradeship progressing through time by the efforts and solidarity of a chain of generations is, for us, wearing thin. Many young Filipinos are leaving the country of their birth, unable to feel any sense of responsibility for the nation that has failed them.
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