Leading without a moral compass

THE Philippines can be likened to a ship, M/V Las Islas Filipinas, floundering in a choppy sea, its moral compass gone haywire from the latest admission of salacious affairs by the Speaker of the House, an elected public official whose position requires moral ascendancy being the fourth highest elective official in the land after the Senate President, the Vice President and the President.

On board this mother ship, the passengers must have been gripped by the fear of getting dashed in the rocks after realizing that they have been, once again, duped and used as mere tools in this game called politics, only to be discarded once their usefulness expires.