The greatest political swindle that was committed by the oligarchy and the US imperialist against the Filipino people occurred not when they ousted Ferdinand Marcos from power, but on the day they steered this country full-speed to being re-colonized.
Every year, these self-righteous hypocrites make their annual orgy at Edsa, mouthing their unbridled hatred and promise of revenge against the Marcoses. For that, they only deepen the wounds of political divisiveness among our people. As the years pass by, the recollection of Edsa has become the catalytic point to compare the past from the present. As history continues to move on, our people are able to judge the difference between glory and infamy, and today, they realize that it was a political swindle sanctified by the very institutions that spearhead in oppressing them.
As these conceited hypocrites deliriously celebrate Edsa, the man at the helm, as usual, capitalizes his theme on hatred, using it as his political ammunition to gloss over his gross incompetence and to divert from the public mind his record of unparalleled corruption. But that pathetic method of enchanting our people has long lost its spell. Many could only ask what have they gained after 30 years of tumultuous greed and idolatry to a make-believe freedom. The value of Edsa already outlived its usefulness but it remains the main propaganda weapon of the Aquino administration and his yellow acolytes to keep them in power. As what many would say now, they cannot keep on making Marcos their whipping boy.
They have to translate their hoot in having restored to our people their freedom and democracy to something tangible. Instead, they have been engrossed in their hate campaign. The more they rub it in, the more our people are turned off because hatred and revenge have never been a platform of government, unless PNoy has become a barbarian that revenge has become his forte. The hypocrites could only blame themselves for elevating Bongbong Marcos as the most serious contender for the vice presidential post. He has become the vortex in this coming election because people are now judging and anticipating him as their replacement to this good-for-nothing administration that has been lording it over this country since 1986.
People are again rejuvenated into participating in this coming electoral exercise. In fact, many of those rooting for Bongbong Marcos are not blue-blooded pro-Marcos or loyalists as they are called, but people determined to cast their votes in his favor to protest against the incomparable incompetence and corruption of this regime. While we can say that there were negative aspects of the Marcos government, he nonetheless had technically been vindicated by the yellow horde’s act of achieving nothing. The twist about their claim of having restored our freedom is that, it is equally and vigorously being foisted on our people by the Communist Party of the Philippines, the National Democratic Front and its various front organizations.
Even if admittedly many of them were arrested and paid their dues for their rebellion and subversion during the period of martial law, they remain intransigent even if it is clear that they are already parroting the line of the oligarchy and the US imperialist. One could deduce that the so-called militant Left has been reduced to the category of a sub-puppet, while the Aquino administration remains their top dog. Their branding of the Marcos government as a puppet of the US imperialist has already lost its substance and validity, much that it is now on record that Marcos was the one who completed our national independence when he allowed the so-called “parity rights agreement” to expire on its date, terminated the US military bases in this country, sought to realign the country’s foreign policy with the non-aligned countries, and was a co-founder of the Asean adhering to the five principles of peaceful co-existence and neutrality.
Today, the government where the militant Left has sought to align to bring down the Marcos government is the same government that allowed the re-colonization of the country. It has not broken off its modus vivendi with PNoy despite its open declaration of being the most despicable puppet state of the US in Asia. Their continued partnership with this puppet government is precisely the reason why they have been politically marginalized and often treated as some kind of ideological psychopath. They have been entrapped into that pathetic state that they have to succumb to the enticement of bribery, nicely called “compensation,” for once that lifeline is cut-off, they would simply wither away.
Their anti-Marcos chanting is of equal political value to the oligarchy much that they serve to divert public attention of the kind of government that came to power after Marcos and for which people are made to believe that freedom has been restored to them. In fact, this brand of democracy has diminished the value of our sovereignty as seen in the sellout agreement entered into by the PNoy government, and is even pushing this country to go to war against China to appease its brokers in Washington.
Perhaps from the Left’s point of view, it is they that are taking advantage of the democratic space accorded them by this pretending to-be-honest government. But for those who could see the truth, it is this puppet government that is taking advantage of them. As a group supposedly guided by ideology, whatever pronouncement they say on issues crucial to the future of this nation have already lost much of their intrinsic value because people now see their collaboration with this puppet government as a matter of survival. Once they detach themselves from that link, they could easily become a thing of the past where people could only remember their bloody episode in our history.
Moreover, if one would analyze the aggressiveness of the militant Left and the so-called martial law “victims” in their vain attempt to discredit the candidacy of Bongbong Marcos, one could see that they are doing the most servile act of betrayal to their cause, viz. to the people they promised to liberate. The US and the local oligarchy have more reasons to fear the victory of Bongbong because they know it would put to an end the era of untrammeled and rambunctious capitalism. But maintaining the façade of neutrality, the oligarchy chose to assign the dirty job of barking out at the candidacy of Bongbong to the so-called “martial law victims.” They would not hesitate to accept that assignment provided they get their cash reward. Having lost their ideological equanimity, they have no inkling that as they continue to drumbeat their anti-Marcos chant, they are further marginalized and isolated, and their candidates suffer because people look at them now as the de facto defender of the corrupt and puppetry status quo.