IT’S no surprise that we are at this point when our candidates for president are talking like the macho men that they are, unfiltered, out of control, using lines straight out of 1980’s showbiz tabloid culture, where pukpukan ng mic sa ulo was a normal occurrence. After all, this is what gets candidates some good ol’ media mileage.
What does surprise is that we have let someone like Rodrigo Duterte bring it to this point, and that another candidate in the person of Mar Roxas would stoop down to his level. I had thought we were all on the same page about the kind of shoot-from-the-hip, Pinoy gangstah, living-in-an-FPJ-movie Duterte is. Which is to say I thought we all agreed that the only way to deal with Duterte’s potty mouth was to ignore it completely.
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