Alright. Let me just ease into this a bit.
I haven’t attended an NBN/ZTE related rally. Not a single mass for truth or accountability. And although I am not exactly a fan of this administration, I find myself unable to rely on non-secular institutions to solve our problems. Lord knows what happened the last time we had a “divinely-inspired” insurrection/coup d’etat.
It’s easy to tack this mess to character flaws - greedy politicians, or a president who is just plain evil. Or maybe we can look at the way our political code is written and executed. Clearly the provisions giving the president the power to enter into executive agreements was too easily exploited. Perhaps oversight powers of Congress for deals like this could have been more explicit.
This is a failure of secular institutions. This means that this is ultimately our responsibility as voters.
How dare I put this back on our laps, right? Did we really get to know our Congress Critters? Were we actually willing to stick our neck outs for clean, credible presidential elections? Are we actually determined to go out to the streets, for as many times that it would take until we get the leaders we deserve?
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