Talk about credibility

Mr. Lozada pointed out that President Arroyo’s cabinet member, Mr. Neri of CHED, once called her “EVIL”. An administration congressman (Congressman Salcedo) called PGMA a bitch when he said “She may be a bitch, but she is the luckiest bitch around.” Former Speaker of the House, Jose de Venecia, called the president “ungrateful.” What has gone wrong? Has the Arroyo administration lost its power to run the nation?

While in most countries, the highest leader of authority of the land, be it democracy, monarchy or anything else, is given respect and high regards, not just because of the command that it holds and the influence that the leader has, but because of their high reverence to the people who voted for that leader. While this scenario is justly appropriate for democratic societies, it is also applicable to monarchy, where people value the position of their queen and king as divine appointment. Just like the USA, one of the world powers today, the president is considered a powerful leader, whose decisions are reckoned as sacred and important to the whole nation and to some extent to the world. People mostly rely to their leaders’ decision-making when it comes to political and national issues and public welfare. The nation, hence, is as great as the leaders that run the system.

While this is true to other countries, ours is the opposite. It’s ironic to think that, while our country is the oldest democracy in Asia and the most “Christian” nation in this part of the Pacific, Philippines remains to be the most politically dysfunctional and one of the most corrupt nations of the world. What went wrong? The culture of corruption still continues to infest the mind and philosophy of most Filipinos. Corruption seems to be the normal way of life now. Our leaders are labeled liars, cheat, corrupt, and rubbish. Talk about the credibility of the leaders. GMA has now become the cancer that’s killing the entire nation. The people suffer; the nation is falling into her knees. And while, leaders are supposed to be treated with reverence, our President and her men are imagined to be the most dissolute of people.

Where is now the authority that the government supposed to hold up to? What happens when the authority or leadership that rules an entire nation loses its authenticity? Where will the nation go? I just don’t know.