"The country is healing ka dyan. May Senate lockdown!"
I know.
I said the country is healing because the majority is already realizing that we are truly in a political unrest.
We are healing because the corrupt politicians, who are brainwashing the masses for their own gains, are already out in the open for the whole world to see.
We are healing because, despite the lack of punishments (yet), people are finally saying that the wrong-doers should be punished.
We are healing because the people involved in the corruption of our legislation are being investigated, not only by the media, but also by the public.
The first step in healing is knowing, and we have come a long way.
Just this last decade, people have been so brainwashed and so foolish that even the people who we knew as intellectuals joined the disgusting bandwagon of violent politics, in where they believed that good governance should be harsh, because our country as a whole deserves to be disciplined and controlled. Nobody had faulted that logic, and the people who were against this certain type of government have been red-tagged, called pro-criminals, and dubbed as stupid. Filipinos are prideful in nature, like our mothers and fathers who would shout and cry once given all the evidence of their wrong decisions. It's only their individual pride that is keeping this structure together (and also the dark triad psychology, but that is a story for another day), but finally, MAJORITY had been so distraught of the injustice that people had foregone their pride to finally see the truth and fight for a better country.
Majority of the youth who were once apolitical (I admit I was one of them) went out to protest despite the dangers.
Red-tagging is a sign of a violent leadership and is never normal in a healthy government that should be respecting our rights to dissent, and I am glad that we are finally recognizing this.
The politicians that had aggressive keyboard warriors are now losing their fanbase, and the ones that are left are the truly insane and the bot accounts.
Are some of these evil entities still protected by the system? Yes.
Do we still agree that this system is just? No.
Small steps, but it still counts.