2016 National Elections
There are simply too many candidates for the coming 2016
elections. For the position of Chief
Executive or Presidency alone, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) had to
disqualify 100 candidates. For the
position of Vice-President, the COMELEC had to disqualify 9 candidates and for
the senator position, 96 wannabees were disqualified.
The main criterion being that these candidates have no
means to conduct a nationwide campaign.
They are only famous in the privacy of their own universe. Some candidates are even just plain old
delusional. Clinically, there is
something wrong with their sanity.
But what about the candidates who were allowed to run by
the COMELEC? With so many allegations
against them, one would think that hiding or backing out of the campaign
exercise would be the reasonable thing to do.
One candidate is accused of being a plunderer; one is accused of being
literally a killer (and by his own admission to boot), one is accused of being
not a natural born Filipino, one came from a presidential pedigree (without the
distinction of a solid accomplishment), and one, that by her own personal
admission via her own column, suffered nervous breakdown.
Unfortunately for the republic, the one of the
enumerated above will ascend to the position of Chief Executive and that would
be that.
Somebody once said that the Philippines is gifted with
the most beautiful people in the planet, the most beautiful plants and fauna,
the most beautiful environment but cursed with people in government. And why is that? Because if the Philippines have a good and
functional government, then such would be the equivalent of heaven on
earth. And god in his own sense of humor
does not want that.
Hence, this coming 2016 elections, the electorate is
cursed with limited and poor choices, and that no matter who the victor is, bad
and inefficient governance is to be expected.
One of the many goals of psychology is the prediction of
human behavior. With these limited and
poor choices before us, it is easy to predict that yes – there will be a change
of administration but it will be still the same insensitive and inefficient
government again for the next six years (or three years, if one counts the
midterm elections).
It is easy to predict that a killer president (by his
own admission), will cause more harm than good for the country. Just imagine the number of human rights that
will be violated in the next six years.
Situation such as this, will clamor for a hero or a savior that will
surely rise out of this Frankenstein presidency. Regrets will hound us up to the very end of
this potential presidency.
It is easy to predict that a thief, once elected to the
position of presidency, will further enrich himself and his family and will
surely steal some more. What’s a couple
of billion here and there.
It is easy to predict that insanity breeds more
insanity, and that one does not really get cured with nervous breakdown, that
for the many challenges of the country, mental stability for the state of mind
of the chief executive is a mandatory requirement for rational and logical
executive decisions.
It is easy to predict that mediocrity will only lead to
mediocre performance. What the country
need right now is a hardworking individual, who is willing to go the distance
and work his way to greatness. A
mediocre individual does not inspire greatness, intrinsically or extrinsically
among others.
It is easy to predict that the lesser the accomplishment
in the past, the lesser the accomplishment in future. There is no such thing as hoping for the
best, which somehow, a divine intervention would transpire, sparing the country
from another waste of six years.
They say that the presidency in the country is not
something that one aspires for. They say
that the presidency in this republic is acquired via destiny.
And with these possible scenarios, just what is the
destiny of the republic? With all of
these predictive scenarios, I could still be wrong in my current reading of
events.
