Beware of the ‘Puppet Masters’

NOW that the Philippine elections are now over, we would have hoped that things would be getting “back to normal,” in the sense that the issues—and personalities—that divide us all during the campaign period are now behind and we can now all look forward to being one people and one nation once again, ready to unite behind a new leadership.

This is ideal indeed but not to be the case. Primarily because the losers’ camp that is Vice President Leni Robredo, appears to be still trapped in their own world of make believe that having campaigned long and hard and convinced of the righteousness of Robredo’s “qualifications” as presidential timber, she should have been elected president.

In other words, democracy, as highlighted by the elections we had, is good—provided the result favored Robredo. Anything short of what they want is the country’s descent to tyranny.

Of course, we can easily dismiss the protests against the elections’ result to be a simple case of losers who are simply too immature to accept reality.

But wait, there is really more to these protests that erupted just hours after the initial vote results showed that Robredo and the group that she represents—the oligarchs, the communists and the illiberal Liberal Party (LP)—are now definitely headed to ignominy and irrelevance.

For these protests, as we see it, is an orchestrated and coordinate effort being staged behind the scene by the country’s political puppet masters who have always profited from our disunity as a people and as a nation.

In our last issue’s editorial, we warned of post-election complacency, aware that working in the shadows are the vested interests, the puppet masters, who are only too glad to add fire to the discontent of some quarters over Robredo’s defeat in order to maintain our state of rancor against each other and our national disunity.

Again, we refer to the deadly partnership of US Imperialism and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) who may have different agenda but who both recognized that their attainment rested on our lack of national unity and peace and order. In short, both suddenly realized that their interests have suddenly come together.

For the CPP, a volatile political situation is good for the advancement of their “armed revolution” towards their ultimate goal of establishing a communist Philippines.

For US Imperialism, a volatile political situation in the Philippines would mean a vulnerable political leadership that it can easily fool or coerce to put its trust on is support—in exchange for allowing the country to be its staging ground for its planned ground war against China.

It is thus in this context that we should all realized that the election protests that is being instigated by the CPP (and possibly being funded by the Americans) is not about electoral fraud or about protecting our democracy or of fixing our electoral process.

It is all about manipulating Filipinos to distrust our institutions and of not respecting, nay even rebelling, against the very leaders that we just elected, thereby destroying our national unity internally.

Unfortunately for all Filipinos too, we have a Vice President, Leni Robredo, who appears clueless to everything that is happening that she is so reckless in her statements just after the elections, most likely unaware that her words and message of misplaced resistance to the result of the elections are music to the ears of the CPP and their imperialist overlord.