PRO-DU30 WITH RESERVATIONS

I was solid supporter of President Duterte during the election campaign period till I casted my vote.  But after about five months in his office, I started to realize I am losing trust to the man I thought the right one, unique, humble and patriotic.  Something wrong is going-on.  His bold and assured promise of cleaning the country from drugs, criminalities and corruption in 6 months which is the main reason why I voted the fearless man but later admitted a miscalculation is a big disappointment.  His brave pronouncement of riding in a jet ski to plant the Philippine flag in Spratlys showed his courage and patriotism but later admitted just a joke which contradict to what I rooted about him during the election campaign is a big disappointment – am I laughable to joke this is my reaction.  His confession “Emilio Aguinaldo” campaign fund statement that turned out to be from influential and allied Marcoses is another big dismay.  All these (well just some of those) are clear lies that fucking-up the people.

And then many untoward incidents that are contradicting to my principles are just accumulating.  Right after assuming the office, his threat to Senator Leila Delima to be jailed by hook or by crook, and then followed by more infamous acts like his proud and loud defense in Extra Judicial Killing, disregarding human’s life, his influence to bury Ferdinand Marcos in LNMB, his inappropriate curse, rhetoric and outrage with US-UN-EU and Catholic church, romancing with China, doubt in the existence of God, extension of Martial Law in Mindanao, oppressing the media who are critical of the administration,  ignoring the positive verdict of The Hague, lame approach in handling WSP claim, intervene in ousting the SC Chief Justice, enforced SSS pension hike, TRAIN law, his sexist behavior, misogynistic remarks and disrespect for women, political vengeance – all these have mounted up and my discontents have just grew up.

I was stunned when P. Duterte came to us.  I said finally the man with ball is here to clean our country.  With his tough personality, I supposed here is the man to bring back the peace and order again in our country.  I admired his courage to name and dedication to haunt the culprits of drugs, it looks like he doesn’t care who the hell big names are involved.  At first I held back when seen his unique fearless rhetoric that many people liked and enjoyed and yelled “it’s only P. Duterte can able to curse the US, EU, UN and even the Pope”.  But hey, it’s not just all wrath but it has to have governance and financial platform too.  The country has so many issues to deal with rather than exhausting on drugs campaign.  The economy, employment, education, transportation, prices and others which must highly addressed too.  And yes, at first I even admired his courage but later when it seemed selective courage only, I think twice and started asking.  Why is he digging controversies of his political opponents and retaliating the oppositions?  Why is he tolerating and justifying his cabinet’s misbehaviors and spread of fake news?

His continuous lies after lies that started in that jet ski in WPS and then followed again and again with another like the fabricated DBS offshore bank account of Senator Antonio Trillanes, his denial of being wealthy but from poor father then later admitted the millions inherited from died Governor father when high school, and his speech right in front of the respected soldiers to shoot him as a sign of his honesty if found his bank account exceeds 40M later he said in an interview it is a little less than 200M.  Now fabricating story of The Hague arbitral ruling to throw the responsibility to the previous administration?  All these flip-flopping, inconsistencies and lies are really putting me in big-big dismay.  The height, his disrespect to our constitution in many occasions by insisting his own interpretation and his entrusting the Chinese government and soldiers to defend him in attempt of ousting him in the office instead of the Filipino soldiers – these are all unbecoming the leader to trust on.  I have to end the long list of questions with these:  He has all the power and that whopping intelligence fund but why are the big-time drugs manufacturers as the real culprits are at large while the poor users and small time pushers were killed?

It’s getting worse.  Prices are rising, inflation goes up, unemployment gets worse, foreign debts grows, pesos dive nose, yet people are still overjoyed with the arrogance of Duterte’s administration.  With blind supporters and overconfident cabinet, change is scamming.  People are changing – into worse.  When promoting killing and vulgarity become acceptable in our present time, values go down in deep. Nowadays we have these anti-Christians around us calling the Heads of the church “ulol”, blaspheming whoever opposed, shouting “kill-kill-kill”, clapping the lewd and vulgar words, isn’t it really true these people have poor faith?  Where in the Books have they found these are okay?   No doubt, I still like his strong and influential personality up to this day but this doesn’t mean I have to accept his repetitive lies, continuous misbehavior, autocracy and disrespect to women, to my church and to constitution.  Still holding on  to the man, but I am now a pro-Duterte with reservations.