Neal Cruz was certainly right: "PNoy, Una's Trinity Killing Constitution." Indeed, it's not only Neal Cruz but several other columnists and opinion makers are saying the senatorial candidates of both the Liberal Party and Binay-Erap's UNa, best indicates the grim truth that political dynasty, which the Constitution prohibits reigns supreme in our midst and times.
The big problem is these opinion makers are only good at shouting their protest to the four winds. In other words, they are only good in saying, never in doing what they are supposed to do. As a matter of fact, there is reason to believe some of them may be voting for political-dynasty candidates in the coming elections.
For me, people like them are good for nothing hypocrites!
I still believe that the people's voice in an election is still the most powerful tool of democracy. Why, then, can't we, who keep shouting we abhor political dynasty, join our votes and voices together and vote against candidates with the same names or belonging to the same clan or family? I know we may not necessarily win soon enough, it will really take a much longer process, to eliminate dynasties in our political landscape. But that is certainly better than doing nothing at all.
I realize that when I go to the polls to vote for new senators, my own vote is going to be a voice in the wilderness. But I will definitely NOT vote for Allan Peter Cayetano, JV Estrada-Ejercito, Jack Enrile, Villar, Bam Aquino, the Magsaysays, and Tingting Cojuangco. Neither may I vote for Grace Poe Llamanzares (even if FPJ was my idol), Loren Legards and Chiz Escudero, UNLESS they decide which party they belong to: PNoy's LP-NP coalition or Binay-Estrada's UNA. To vote for these three are not unlike betting "BAKLAY" in beto-beto or jueteng, from which, in turn, the word "BAKLA" came from.
As I said, I know some of these names are still likely to win in 2013. I don't care! 'Yan namang eleksyon -- para sa akin, ewan ko sa inyo --ay hindi isang sugal. Ala eh, sino na ga sa atin ang nakinabang diyan? For me, again ewan ko sa inyo, eleksyon is the voters' only remaining tool to at least hope for a change in existing governance. Aba'y kung hindi ko pa naman magamit ang tool na ito nang TAMA, aba'y di we the people become as equally good for nothing as the people and the policies in government that we condemn. To put it more bluntly, I dont want to be a hypocrite by continuing to denounce political dynasty but voting into office
people who are members of a political dynasty. Indeed, in a situation where our so called (dis)honorable lawmakers will never pass the need enabling law to effectively curb political dynasty, then only the people's votes may hope to kill it -- maybe not now, but sooner or later -- in the same way that there is always a light at the end of the darkest tunnel. As I recall Henry Wadsworth Longfellow saying in his "A Psalm of Life," what matters most is we "learn to labor and to wait."
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