I caught myself being sucked into the perennial quicksand of controversy and negativity, driven mostly by partisanship – emotionally, that is. Thankfully, I have not engaged anyone in antagonistic exchanges, limited so far in expressing opposing ideas and sentiments. There have been a lot of provocations and further expanded today by the advent of the political season for the May 2022 presidential elections. Going 19 months into the pandemic and strict quarantine protocols for seniors like me have built up the tension, too. Naturally, I chide myself for almost falling into a trap that I have been in before. It has been 50 years since my first voting experience plus another 10 years when I was younger and already exposed to the political dynamics of my boyhood. I remember the 1953 Magsaysay-Quirino contest in my short pants days, the recent 2019 elections 66 years apart, plus martial law and two people power revolutions in between. Nothing should surprise me anymore. Still, learning lessons from the past is not guaranteed by simply growing old. We will slide into more acrimony and political bickering while we are still battling Covid – which is a serious and persistent pressure point. If we were… Read full this story
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