Filipino’s Disillusioned of Philippine Politics,

Leaders, and Governance

Philippine Politics is one of the hottest issue nowadays

for it leads Filipino people grow disillusioned with people power
protest- forcing someone to step down to its position. One fact is
that during the time of late pres. Marcos, when the philippine
middle-class was fed up with political turbulence and wants
stability and that in 2005, a writer posted about Santos, a women
who witnessed some of the government tanks that was ordered to
the streets by long time dictator Ferdinand Marcos and during
1986, she and tens of thousands of other filipinos, carrying some
flowers and rosary beads then camped along Edsa Boulevard until
marcos fell. Followed by the another graft-tainted leader, Joseph
Estrada, left office after a single night of protest. After that
moment another president was elected and that was Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo which is also facing a crescendo of calls to step
down due to allegations that she cheated during the national
elections.

But like the vast majority of other Edsa veterans,

Santos lost her interest In joining the few protesters on the streets
and she realized protesting over a rounded scenario is just a tiring
activity for when it comes to politics, leaders, and governance it
was all the same after all and it just happens over and over again
such that there is really no changes in our political system. Thus
disappointments made by arroyo was surpassed only by a weary
recognition of “PEOPLE POWER” a very known protest movement
made by Corazon Aquino and that has run its course, that no new
political savior is at hand to rally the masses and as calculated,
only several thousand demonstrators joined the Anti-Arroyo rally
in Manila.

In addition, despite of all those peresonalities that once

ruled and governs our country, philipphine politics has got
worsened and never changed even a bit of the system still it in
favors those people who are economically powerful and pitied those
who are economically unsatable. Thus, after a very long tradition of
democratic government and serious efforts at economic reform, the
Philippines remains plagued by Poverty, corruption, crime, and
insurgency. This stagnant situation is perpetuated by the
traditional exemption of the ruling class from the rule of law,
which has excluded the unresponsive and inefficient governing elite
from the electoral and economic competition that could force
meaningful reform. The persistent inability of philippine
governments to bring the elite within the rule of law is a pervasive
obstacle to progress that can only be removed by focused, sustained
political pressure from the filipino people.

As commonly known, Philippines also has a somewhat

like a Political Dynasty in which our country is usually dominated
by rich families or clans to be specific and this fact could not be
something new to our ears in which also one of the reasons why
they never expect to much from whoever will gonna be seated next
as a president because as for the filipino people, it already runs in
their blood and same thing same scenarios will gonna be happening.
Example, Aquino was the wife of a opposition leader and Their son
was also once a president of the philippines and five of their
relatives were in congress and one was a senator. Lastly, Arroyo
was the daughter of a presidenet in 2004 then Arroyo’s son and
brother-in-law held congressional seats.