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AT the end of the day, what matters most is how you made someone feel. Bear that in mind as you try to suppress your spontaneity, as you try to leave your uniqueness behind, as you try to please everyone.

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Pleasing everyone is never possible. There will always be at least one person not comfortable with you. Are you now obliged to reach out to that person? If you’re a political candidate, will that one person’s vote affect your victory on May 9?

Political candidates tend to blurt out what the madlang pehpohl want to hear. But with all the debates among them and among their fans, there’s a chance for the truth to be revealed, you know, the truth that candidates are not supposed to reveal.

There’s that one presidentiable who has been spontaneous since the start, not even censoring the words he says in his speeches. He says PI, and the more his fans cheer for him. His PI is not Philippine Islands. His PI is composed of two words that may be censored with asterisks and bleeps.

Despite the curse words and his personal revelations on the number of allegedly bad people he has ordered to be banished from this oh so cruel world, he seems to be the most popular presidentiable now. Is it because of his spontaneity? His simplicity?

When you’re talking to a group of people, you have to censor your own words otherwise you reveal more than the usual. You have to wonder, though, if the spontaneous presidentiable censors his words so that what comes out of his mouth are expressions that the madlang pehpohl could relate with. Is there a conscious effort there to be as ordinary as the voters he wants to convince?

Too many questions, eh? And you should be able to answer each one of them before May 9 otherwise you’ll end up with the kind of president that you hate the most.

A certain vice presidentiable is also gaining popularity, thanks to his family’s alleged hobby in stealing from the national treasury? Hmmm, more like thanks to the Pinoys’ selective amnesia.

But with most of the other political families also alleged to be stealing from that treasury, what would make this vice presidentiable unique from the rest?

In case you’re now confused, here’s unsolicited advice: simplify your criteria in choosing political candidates–vote for the presidentiable and vice presidentiable who can improve the internet speed in Pinas. That’s it.

As for the plataporma, that can sometimes be all for porma. Pa-cute lang. Pa-tweetums. Pa-as if. With all the politics that they have to deal with once they win, some campaign promises may have to wait for a while.

But Pinoys need a faster internet speed. They’re tired of the words loading, buffering…

The frustration over waiting for videos to play, for attachments to open, for attachments to be attached, is the kind of feeling they want to  forget so their brains will have some vacant space to remember how it was before 1986 when the dictator and his family were still around, and it was the eldest daughter, and not the son, who seemed bent on having a political career.

That daughter is indeed in politics now but it’s the son who’s running for higher office as a candidate for vice president. Those who may vote for him were not even born yet in 1986, they have no idea of what People Power is or what Martial Law did to Ninoy Aquino. They may not even know that Ninoy was the father of PNoy.

I myself hate history because I can’t memorize dates and names of people, places, events. If that’s the reason behind the Pinoy youth’s ignorance on what transpired from the ’60s to the ’80s here in Pinas, I hope we will all change our attitude towards history and start learning about what happened before, and its connection to why we are the way we are now.

The only feeling you wanna have after the election is this: that you have chosen the best candidate among the debaters. And please don’t base your decision on his skill as a debater. The best debater may be glib but it’s possible that’s the only thing he’s good at.

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