A LITTLE over a week with the new President and I have a sinking feeling that what informs much of our opinions about how this country should be run is a closet conservatism, if not a closet Catholicism, that is very rabid about choosing between black and white.

Here, one finds that we apparently don’t like gray areas, and in this sense President Duterte will always fail: rhetoric pa lang, talo na siya.

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