Random Thoughts..

Last election, I didn't vote. Not because I didn't want to, but failed miserably at exercising my rights. In short, I didn't register. Didn't root for Duterte either while most of my circles did. Well, I very much enjoy the role of an antagonist especially when everyone seems to have the herd mentality. Best of all, it's nice to mess with their brains. ha!

Today, since he's now our new president, we don't really have a choice but to support him. I guess the killing is a little too much so that everyday in the news, it's becoming a staple to report about a certain drug-related death. Some would say that it's some group trying to eliminate the other. Or, drug lords liquidating those who surrendered because they could give vital information to the authorities or are not inclined to pay their dues. Very plausible.

Or, it's really the law enforcers who are now emboldened especially with the backing of no less than the president himself and his PNP chief to just shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out!

Some aren't so lucky though. We've heard a lot of news about innocent people being shot at as a case of mistaken identity. Sadly, they now form part of a mere statistics and most people aren't too interested to hear about their real stories.

Then comes the battle to vanish corruption. I guess 100 days wouldn't suffice to get rid of such deeply rooted predicament which we've been having for the last 100 years. Yeah, I was being generous with the number of years.

To quote some guy named William:

"Best way to do it, eradicate all of them people in LTO, BIR, LTFRB, BOC, etc. You can't expect these people to change since they've tasted corruption already. Then there are the enablers you have to deal with. How do you stop them from corrupting the people inside when they want to be ahead of everybody else? Well, give the government employees bigger salary and improve the system so that people transacting in the government would not be tempted to bribe because it is more efficient and they get what they came for faster."

Yeah, easily said than done.

There's bureaucracy, red tape, commission on audit, legislation, etc. etc. and a whole lot of mechanisms to go over before you can effect the CHANGE you want. But change is good. It's a welcome break from our conventional mindset and getting out of our comfort zone.

But, like Rome was not built in a day or people didn't get fat overnight, these perennial problems aren't going away anytime soon.

Bottom line, it's good something is being done with our troubles, but lets not expect too much especially when people sitting in the government are mostly the same bananas who are bunch of recycled political butterflies who also have their own agenda.

I'm probably having hypoglycemia to come up with this thoughts.. so, forgive me for running my mouth and perhaps offended your political views.

Anyway, bed is calling... ZZZZzzzzzzzz

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