Sandbox

POLITICS is said to be a game of addition, not subtraction. You go to bed with the enemy and you forget about previous opposition research that caused one's political fate to unravel - is addition for some. The recent 1Sambayan launch pretends to be capturing the rainbow in the spectrum of ideas when it does not really do so. It merely created a sandbox.

What unites the six names is something the organizers can probably explain to the public. But since it wilted in the public glare 1Sambayan is left with just two or three as Diokno was not clear with his neither-here-nor-there explanation. Clearly, Diokno used it to define and contrast himself from the rest. When aligned with the five, he raised his political worth and created a beachhead in the voter's mind. Diokno clearly reintroduced himself.