Of fairness & malice

FAIRNESS has never been a virtue in the political arena. You need always to be ahead of one’s opponent. The ability to throw mud is measured on the ability to win the perception war. Often, politics has been viewed as a bloody sport. Till one is hit badly and blood colors the canvass, it is alright to hit more. And this script is nothing new to us Filipinos. Remember Daang Hari in relation to then Senate President Manny Villar and the magical term, Villaroyo, concocted by the same dirty minds of today? The old script is being played again.

Instead of focusing on a program of governance, we pay so much attention on the personal. Instead of studying what makes a particular candidate better than others, some political operatives (they are not strategists since there is nothing to study and prepare options in a situation where you just throw heaps and mounds of mud) measure their success in ruining others ensuring a better environment (in their favor) when campaign starts. You hit because you know your candidate is not performing well.