THE national discourse in the Philippine these days is like that of a madhouse. Literally.
The cacophony of acrimonious exchanges between the crazed and rabid trolls and political hatchet men of the BBM administration and the Duterte partisans have reached a climax with the filing of a fourth impeachment case against the Duterte icon, Vice President Sara, based on totally baseless and spurious allegations.
If there is anyone that should be facing impeachment, it is President Bongbong Marcos (BBM) and his key henchmen for ruining the nation’s unity, peace, stability, and economic health due to their massive plunder of the 2025 national budget that has enraged all sectors of Philippine society.
Today’s acrimonious national discourse was not at all expected when BBM ascended to the presidency in June 2022; the nation’s hope for unity was very evident as he and Vice President Sara Duterte accepted their mandate to lead the country together.
People also expect that BBM would continue all important national policies, particularly the ‘independent foreign policy,’ which had been passed on to his administration by the previous government of President Duterte, to the great benefit of the nation.
In January of 2023, PBBM went on a state visit to China, and China not only rolled down the red carpet to PBBM and his entourage but also gave him the distinct honor of being the first head of state welcomed by President Xi Jinping that year.
PBBM and Pres. Xi then signed a ‘Comprehensive Strategic Cooperation’ agreement, with China committing a $22.8-billion in investment, aside from the on-going Belt-and-Road Initiative (BRI) projects already under construction in the Philippines.
However, less than a month later, the BBM government inexplicably shut off all communications with the Chinese Embassy. Meanwhile, the Philippine Coast Guard started executing “assertive transparency” provocations against the Chinese Coast Guard in the disputed portions of the South China Sea.
The abrupt change in attitude is clearly in preparation for BBM’s state visit to the United States in May 2023, following the “tradition” of all Philippine Presidents (except Pres. Duterte) visiting Washington to pay homage, as all vassals do, to the sitting US leader.
As a result of that visit, we suddenly saw a series of attacks against VP Sara over her perceived “ties” to China and against her father, Pres. Duterte, on the issue of ‘EJKs,’ ‘POGO,’ with the threat of hauling him before the international kangaroo court that is the ICC.
And did you know that the entire bureaucracy was systematically rooted out of officials appointed under Pres. Duterte?
Tellingly, one of the issues raised in the impeachment complaint is “Sara’s ‘worrisome silence’ on the issue of the West Philippine Sea.”
To us, here lies the real motive for VP Sara’s impeachment. The Americans are the ones working behind the scene to wreak her political career lest she restore our independent foreign policy should she become our next president in 2028.
Thus, the impeachment of VP Sara is a ‘marriage of convenience’ between the “trapos” who want to remain in power forever like Romualdez, and Uncle Sam, who wants us to be its forever vassal by destroying leaders not willing to serve its interests.