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it's our turn to be Fascist

and Duterte is a fascinating mix of right and left

if he rehabilitates the Commies and has rapproachment with China, i'm ok with that (puwera Scarborough)

If we are in a fascist turn, it would be the first time a country turned fascist while not in a crisis. We're doing well in fact.

good point, and i credit that to a disgruntled middle class

But why are they disgruntled? They never had it so good.

this middle class you're talking about may be more fragmented now chuck

I don't know Jeg, i can only watch helplessly how after the Napoles scam, and that Luneta PDAF rally, the Middle Class turned Nega and there was no looking back since then

Yes Sparks. The Poe's will make their piece with the Du30 folks. The Yellow Crowd (like me) hate both with a passion, i think.

Should be read as 'peace'

cvj: Methinks the disgruntlement was engineered for 6 years. Not by Duterte people. And all they had to do was engineer it for Metro Manila. Get MManila, you have the whole country.

You know, i don't even think it had to be engineered. If our conversations here in plurk are to go by, it's like we in the Middle Class just went into a funk of negativity by ourselves

Remember #tuwadmgadukha ?

To be clear, i'm not saying it was unprovoked by the Admin

Ah, I thought you were saying any criticism is unjustified. Remember our context is a turn towards strongman rule/fascism. That milieu that made that happen was I believe engineered.

Im thinking Binay. He made no secret of his plans for the presidency unlike Poe, Duts, or Miriam. It was in his best interests to engineer hatred for the admin and it backfired on him when Duts ran.

The mistakes are real. Possible critics added fuel to fire

Yes they were. But what's interesting is voters thought desperate measures were called for instead of more conventional ones. They voted for Duts bec he promised to keep open the option of authoritarian rule...

... if he doesnt get what he wants.

We're risk-takers so we probably didn't think much of it

Besides, the previous dictatorship was supposed to be our Golden Age, and look at Singapore!