LAS VEGAS: Nevada, the home state of this Sin City, is showing higher political morality and maturity than the only Christian country in Asia. This Christmas season, and with this in mind, it’s time we look deeper and re-evaluate our national ethos.

The consensus made incoming Speaker of the Nevada legislature, Rep. Ira Hansen, a Republican, abandon his life-long ambition when state netizens, backed by local media, came out criticizing his positions and negative views on race and homosexuality when he was a newspaper columnist and radio talk show host. No Filipino politician would ever do what Hansen has done – give up a coveted post in the face of strong criticisms from the public. Forget everything you hear that a Filipino politician will always listen to his “bosses.” That happens only when what he hears jibes with his own thinking.

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