There is a political storm brewing and I don't think anyone is thinking properly about how it will affect the country within the next five years or ten years or fifty years.
The long and short of it is that Pres. Arroyo was haunted by intrigues since her run for Senator. This, however, is not a rant about the past ten years or so. This is about the past few weeks, so limiting ourselves to the events at hand, she is now reaping the fruits of the intrigues. She took the offensive by pre-emotive strikes at her opponents and opposition. She wanted to out-balance whatever plans other people had. I think that these pre-emptive strikes backfired. The wire-tapping issue would not have been general knowledge if Malacanang had not divulged to the public that the tapes existed and would be used against the current administration. This now led ultimately to a muddling of the issues.
Her second pre-emptive strike was when she dissolved the cabinet to make way for reshuffling the bureaucracy. This backfired because it was widely known that the economic team was resigning, and these cabinet members said so in a press conference after the cabinet secretaries handed their resignation.
Even before, there was already a negative perception about her. Even if the economy was doing relatively okay, she was perceived to be not doing her job well. Now with all these things her administration started (to prevent further problems, which created bigger problems) the perception or image has gone further negative.
I want to see this "crisis" end in a constitutional manner. Because this will be a precedent for future event resolution. The old models are passe, people power is not a viable alternative any longer because the people are tired, and there is no power anyway. People Power has become a value meal joke. You get two jokes for the price of one.
This will be fun. The old chinese curse comes to mind: "may you live in interesting times." It's been too damn interesting for as long as I can remember! Since before 1972, in fact.
--andoy
15 July 2005
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