The Body Politic
The Philippine political scene is a mess. Crazy, dirty, skanky, embarrassing, corrupt politicians lord it over a people who couldn’t care less, except those very few who have access to the internet—those very few who show their concern by assiduously posting their inane and idiotic observations about their inane and idiotic politicians on any website that has a comments section. And the politicians are actors/famous athletes/famous for whatever reasons--and their spouses and relatives and their spawns, legitimate or not. …and let’s not forget the political clans . No self-respecting village, town, city, province or entire island/region is without a clan to rule over them—the Philippines’ own version of royalty, plus their rival clans. Yes, they have rival clans. They make every elections very exciting , especially in the provinces. (Note: image is from here ) The current President—who incidentally is from such a clan—is a former senator who got...