Convergence & 2016

“Never underestimate the difficulty of changing false beliefs by facts,” the economist Henry Rosovsky once said. In a democracy, information is power, but you can never know whether it will make us better or worse off as narrated by Robert J. Samuelson, an Op-Ed columnist of the Washington Post (who is often published by The Manila Times). “Truth comes in infinite varieties; every story can have many narratives. There are always new facts, and sometimes today’s indisputable fact qualifies or rebuts yesterday’s.”

And that is where we are today. In fact some people use terms loosely like political demolition and politicking to mean the same. Politicking means “activity undertaken for political reasons or ends, as campaigning for votes before an election, making speeches, etc., or otherwise promoting oneself or one’s policies.” Political demolition is a derby or contest in which declared candidates crash into each other until only one is left standing. Demolition can be either overt or covert and timing is very crucial. Timing is also the way to explain things. A so-called parking building has been there since 2007 or 7 years ago. Allegations about that should have been raised years ago and proper cases should have been filed. Past two election cycles and two years away from 2016, how would we call such revelations made before a congressional hearing?