[OPINION] Who needs enemies when you have a President like Duterte?

A President with even passable leadership capabilities would not need reminding of that fundamental duty.What more should be said? Our fishermen are dying. Our President delayed instituting travel bans because he was afraid of offending a particular foreign nation. While our people are placed at risk and outrightly killed, our government tiptoes and kowtows to this foreign nation. Appeasement and diplomacy is one thing: subservience and the inability to grow a backbone is another.

Political will is not only the will to go against public opinion. It is also the will to take the road that goes against personal stakes and interests.More than 3 years of Martial Law over 1/3 of the country, after an encounter in one city, begs the question: what are they really trying to accomplish in Mindanao?

How well has he exemplified and promoted Filipino core values of love, unity, peace, tolerance, compassion, trust, respect, fidelity, and honesty? He promotes misogyny, violence, molestation, and devaluation of women as sexual objects. He disrespects members of the LGBTQ community. He uses offensive words that should never be uttered within the hearing of impressionable children and any adult who has any sense of self-worth, even at a time when everyone has no choice but to tune in in order to have the best chance of surviving and keeping their loved ones safe during the pandemic.

Some Filipinos may have found his antics amusing – much as someone might be intrigued by something so foreign or alien to our experiences. But that only drives home how little he resembles, and how inadequately he represents and promotes the core values that make us Filipinos who we are.I think the answer is clear.

Count the deaths. Count the sufferings. Count the fear and division he has cast over our nation – such that even those who claim to approve of his “War on Drugs” is afraid of being wrongfully targeted under it. Now, count how many of his allies and friends have escaped unscathed from all the scandals they created. Finally, count the campaign promises he has actually accomplished.

Rappler garbage garbage... maria ressa convicted criminal....

Duterte is worst than Marcos and 16M Pinoys are responsible for the deep shit our country is in.

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