Quote from: Russlenat on September 09, 2025, 11:04:36 AM

Quote from: Lucius on September 09, 2025, 10:23:50 AM

It will continue as long as ordinary people elect bad people to govern the country. If they do this in every election, then a large part of the responsibility lies with them. Change can only come if dishonest people are removed and those who will work for the benefit of the people are appointed.

Unfortunately this is not gonna happen since majority of the population in the Philippines are poor. And most of these poor people dont really think who is good or bad, they will only vote if they can benefit during election - like vote buying for example, which is so rampant here. Even government aid is being used as a form of vote buying.

So as long as poverty is this high, people have no choice but to go with whoever can help them, even if they know that politician is corrupt - or sometimes they’re just not educated about what’s really happening. Right now, it feels hopeless if our country will ever recover and be led by the right ones.

Politicians are almost the same everywhere, so I will tell you that I live in a country where, with small interruptions, for 30 years, a party that has been condemned as a criminal organization has ruled, and their prime minister ended up in prison - and now they are in power and are destroying the country as best they know how. The key to their success is to convince the majority of voters that nothing can be changed, and at the same time, their party army goes to the elections as if by strict military command.

Unfortunately, people in such countries have two options, to become politically active and try to change something, which is a very difficult option - or to leave the country, as is the case in my country (about 500 000 people left in ten years), but I see that a lot of Filipinos have immigrated, because they are obviously better off than in their homeland.