OFFICIAL MENAGERIE

October 12, 2015

Today is the day that the LORD has made.  It is also the day those who want to run for top positions in government express their sincerity in aiming for the power, wealth and glory, while cloaking their insincerity for public service in star power and fandom, when they started filing their certificates of candidacy at the COMELEC, complete with marching bands, their legions of supporters and scantily clad young people in colourful costumes gyrating to the latest street parade music.

The types of “runners” (zombie marathoners?) are as varied as the levels of their sanity.  Many are the nuisance ones (you’d wonder how much they’d get paid or ‘bought-out’ later) that their delusions of their qualifications and worthiness are really just hilariously insane, for lack of better words (a good one-phrase treatment for us not to lose our own sanity while feeling tremendously incredulous with their dreams of being in power).  Hay naku! Anak ng putakte!=(

Mom wonders how such crazy people could think of running for public office.  Don’t they have self-respect? I smiled and told her, this is the kind of democracy we get, where top government posts are coveted by the craziest, most stupid and most corrupt people in society.  Miriam D.S. was right.  If others could jokingly call her Brenda, then I side with her and agree that we might as well call the many trapos who are now officially running for the 2016 election, the ‘gathering of the crazies’. 

While others have pending graft and plunder cases, others have administrative cases, others have actual hard-core criminal cases (such as drug pushing, smuggling, illegal possession, land-grabbing, illegal detention and summary killings), others were so suspiciously sick and weak while serving their sentence that they are asking for hospital arrest but were miraculously wiry and sprite when visiting the COMELEC today.  Some were in the news the previous months for attempted suicide due to depression but looked amazingly normal smiling in front of the camera today after filing their certificates.  (You’d think these people have DIDs).

I could only pray that the great majority of us Filipino voters would not get swept up and blown away by all the propaganda, keep our wits about us and get all the wisdom we could before choosing the most appropriate ones.  Selling our votes is really attractive considering the economic hardships most of us are experiencing now, but we must all think that such amounts could never measure up to all the money these people are stealing from the government treasury.  What, our votes are bought at a measly P500, while the ones we voted to serve our district, the senate seat, and the presidency were able to amass up to hundreds of billions in dollars each (if not for themselves, their families, or their kamag-anak, kaibigan, kabarilan, kainuman, kachikahan, and even ka-prayer group), yet safely stashed in Swiss bank accounts?  If we do our math right, the amount of money being stolen each year by these trapos, their families and connections and cohorts are greater by far than our national budget.

It’s time to wake up.  The Philippine Civil Service is so strict in recruiting and disciplining ordinary government employees, but we the voters remain forever clueless that those we elected in top positions of power are mostly non-eligible, non-qualified, delusional, narcissistic kleptomaniacs with IQs of negative 160. 

Let us stop making our government an official menagerie of noisy, power-hungry macaque monkeys.  Start getting tuned in now, pay attention, and come the second Monday of May 2016, really VOTE WISELY.