5 + 1 years of baloney

AS Mr. Aquino is preparing for his last SONA, the most relevant question to ask is not about what his address would be but this one: Why did the nation fail to react to his many over-the-top, hollow SONA claims over the past five years? And the broader question: Why are his day-to-day claims that we are better off now than we were five years ago still uncontested? Mr. Aquino has been dishing out partisan, highly biased claims about his presidency since 2010, yet not one has stood up to offer a truer, less partisan version of the little his administration has done--little things that have been blown out of proportion.

Under a democracy, when a President says the world is flat, it is the function of that nation’s civil society or the function of that nation’s public intellectuals to correct the President and throw at him the evidence that it is otherwise. Forget the politicians.