Next president as political messiah a pipedream

The conventional wisdom is that changing the tenant by the Pasig a couple of years from now will automatically produce a revolutionary if not reformist governance that can right all wrongs and shortcomings that now plague the nation. The idea that a maestro, by waving a magic wand, so to speak, can produce a miracle of good governance and development is at best quixotic.

If we believed the mantras proclaimed by previous occupants of the Palace hot seat, this nation should have already catapulted into the ranks of developed economies.