I want to be hopeful, but…

RODRIGO Duterte is showing the world that he is different from all of his predecessors in the presidency. Filipinos, specifically those who did not vote for him, are struggling to accept the change that he had promised to bring about in government.

When you have a leader who prefers to go against the norms, you have to brace yourself for change. But when change is toward regression, the struggle becomes even harder to hope for better things to come.