DUTERTE’S BLUEPRINT FOR A DICTATORSHIP
2018 was the year of incessant aggression by the opportunists and militarists in government in satisfying their avarice and pushing their anti-people and subservient-to-US agenda but were matched with the people’s determined resistance to frustrate these vultures and mad dogs of President Rodrigo R. Duterte.
The dictatorship championed by Duterte and his lackeys is already here, maneuvered in by a string of repressive policies and campaigns rolled out in installments. At this point, there is no question that this treacherous regime will shove charter change down the Filipino people’s throats and what’s left for Duterte to complete this constitutional change is how best to deceive the public about it. The dictator’s playbook has been set into motion, outlined by classic worn-out moves comprised of “red scare” and destabilization plots, further enriched by mounting militarist campaigns, murder and rights violations, and other myriad forms of injustice.
As fascism presents itself in a clearer tyrannical form, past victories indicating a step forward for people’s rights have been overturned. Indeed, under the Duterte regime, the country is experiencing a freezing weather for human rights. There is a trigger happy amoral President, capable of making it rain bullets and bombs across the country. A dictatorship is here in shadowy form, led by a tyrannical but posing as a populist leader who, at the end of the day covetously seeks to preserve all that is rotting in the country’s political and economic system for his own purposes.
The year 2018 was Duterte’s kickoff for laying down the foundation for and engineering a dictatorship amid a mounting people’s protest movement against the attacks on individuals and communities.