We must stop repeating our mistakes

I have been traveling at an increased pace of late—outside the country, to engage human life and family issues, and inside the country, to discuss regime and systems change. From September to November, I was in Moscow, Salt Lake City, and the Vatican in connection with the first. From August up to last week, I was in Lipa, Cebu, Butuan, Angeles, and Davao in connection with the second.

On these foreign trips, I unavoidably bumped into Filipinos. Invariably, the conversation turned to politics, specifically to President B. S. Aquino 3rd and the Senate. Those who had been following the Priority Development Assistance Fund and Disbursement Acceleration Program or pork barrel scandal generally lamented what happened to PNoy’s widely hyped “daang matuwid,” and to the once-noble institution called the Senate.