If her “opposition” to her brother is simply an expression of sisterly concern, beyond the recently concluded elections, what will Imee do if helping the Dutertes greatly harms her brother, or her family’s reputation, which she has labored for decades to rehabilitate?
People Power—truthfully against tyranny and dictatorship—is still alive. And it is stirring.
The fear of many during the 2022 elections campaign that a Bongbong Marcos presidency would lead to more Marcos Sr. “glory days” propaganda has come true.
There is something oddly appropriate about relatives of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.—namely his cousin, Philippine ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel Romualdez and his sister, Sen. Imee Marcos—expressing concern about their undocumented countrymen being deported from the US under another Trump presidency, given that the American government once wanted a US-based Bongbong to return to his homeland following, of all things, a traffic violation.
Since Bongbong took office, government propagandists have a track record of amplifying his and his family’s line that all went downhill after 1986, so it is necessary for a Marcos to course-correct the country.
The first KB elections were held on May 1, 1975. Those eligible to be part of the organization “shall be at least fifteen years of age or over but less than eighteen.” Imee was then 19 years old.
It was my nearly seven-year-old son, who occasionally plays “retro” (2000s) video games, who helped me figure it out. I was puzzling over why the so-called Bagong Pilipinas hymn seemed so familiar. While we were listening to the song, my son asked, “Why does that sound like the Wii Sports song?”
Fifty-two years later after the failed Bongbong rockets, a new racket on the rocket is being promoted by the Marines.
Today’s SRDP proponents and advocates need to look at the supposed Marcos-era “success stories,” like the M16 project, with more sober eyes.
Bagong Pilipinas is the “[Bongbong Marcos] Administration’s brand of governance and leadership.”
