Filipinos Are Bamboos In The Wind

Every politician has a way to cover his dirt. This fact is obviously seen when a hot issue is starting to get cold because a new issue has suddenly risen and the media is all over it not because of its relevance but because they were "paid" to blow the new issue up. This is a common practice in politics not only in the Philippines but in other countries as well.

Political issues are sometimes created deliberately to sway attention from this issue to another thus saving the political figure subject of the earlier attention. Funny thing is that most Filipinos are easily swayed by what is being presented especially if there is media influence. They will believe the words of those who are being interviewed as true and will start to pour emotional outbursts and soon a big rally will again take place. There are two sides of this situation. First, the politician who will gain from this rally will support the protesters and rallyists financially and the politician affected will counter the sway by paying for their own counter rally or creating another issue to the extreme. At the end of the game, media won and the Filipinos suffer more.



So why did I call SOME of our fellow Filipinos as Bamboos in the wind? Because just like the bamboo plants, they follow where the wind takes them. If the wind blows to the north, the bamboo follows. If the wind blows to the south, east or west, the bamboo follows. In politics, who creates the wind? I believe you know the answer to that.

And so it blows again.... whoosshhh...