WHETHER we’re talking of the “war on drugs” and the decision to avoid international sanctions by quitting the International Criminal Court, the “war on corruption” and the plan to make the controversial Janet Napoles a “state witness,” the “war on the Supreme Court Chief Justice” and the need to remove her without going through the required impeachment process, the “war against the communists” while strengthening the position of the President’s communist appointees, the need to keep our national territory and national dignity intact while allowing the Chinese to occupy and fortify areas within our “exclusive economic zone” in the Spratlys, close down the world-famous Boracay island for a year so a giant casino operator from Macau could replace the small Filipino entrepreneurs operating on the beaches, very little seems to make sense anymore. The state is failing, but we can no longer blame everything on President Rodrigo Duterte alone; we must take part of the blame ourselves.