Silence Is Dangerously Deep in Mudslinging
One of the typical example of the ill-effects of mudslinging during a political fora or political exercise is the silent turn-around of silent voters to sympathize the mudslinged candidate.
Peaceloving people would not want to propagate the culture of corruptive black propaganda during election campaign. They would rather prefer a weak candidate for him to be developed while in office than a claimed-to-be expert who knows no bounds in slinging black propaganda against his/her fellow candidates. People would rather vote for a neophyte candidate than to cast their sacred vote to a wanton oldies who disregard the feelings of the relatives of their opponents in a mouth-battle-tested, arrogant and pernicious talkative. They would prefer to a sympathized-vote for a silent but a surely potential young candidate who has the dynamism to improve while in office than ferocious warrior-like candidate who promises the heavens and the stars to fall down their opponents.
Silence is dangerously deep in mudslinging...this is the lesson I've learned in this May 10, 2004 local and national elections here in the Philippines.
But, these are not all. Nevertheless, other cultures and traditions thrive in some other places where people's upbringing is more of "pride and humility" fighting each other to win the hearts and mind of the people. I have learned that people really mean business when business is brought to their lot in either "political ways". And there are many political ways available for the choosing. We can classify them as autocratic, democratic, egalitarian, Maoist and Leninist, Communistic, Socialistic, and all those that contains the "ian", the "ist" and the "tic" words combined; and the grievous fault is that when we choose one, the consequence of having surely an opponent, in such a certain political perspective and dynamic culturation, is not farfetched.
Today, the aftermath of the last election is quite intriguing, why? Because a lot of people who are now swarming the winning candidates and some if not all of the winning candidates are hiding because of so much expenditures they've incurred. Others are now even having fun with their immediate families accepting greetings and houlahoou from immediate friends and critiques everywhere. Scenarios are drawn every second making choked-up stories to read or even heard over radio broadcasting systems all over the archipelago.
Well, there's the opposite of this hooked-up news and caravan cuddling among candidates who won. They start to learn how to keep silent everytime. Maybe they've learned the past...too much talk, too much mistakes; less talk, less mistakes it's because they've done nothing for the people. (Handsclapping.....Yeheyyyyyy...)
Hypocrisy really cripples the bone to the last bit of strength it has. May be this is one of the essential elements of "silence". (Watch out for the next elections....)
Peaceloving people would not want to propagate the culture of corruptive black propaganda during election campaign. They would rather prefer a weak candidate for him to be developed while in office than a claimed-to-be expert who knows no bounds in slinging black propaganda against his/her fellow candidates. People would rather vote for a neophyte candidate than to cast their sacred vote to a wanton oldies who disregard the feelings of the relatives of their opponents in a mouth-battle-tested, arrogant and pernicious talkative. They would prefer to a sympathized-vote for a silent but a surely potential young candidate who has the dynamism to improve while in office than ferocious warrior-like candidate who promises the heavens and the stars to fall down their opponents.
Silence is dangerously deep in mudslinging...this is the lesson I've learned in this May 10, 2004 local and national elections here in the Philippines.
But, these are not all. Nevertheless, other cultures and traditions thrive in some other places where people's upbringing is more of "pride and humility" fighting each other to win the hearts and mind of the people. I have learned that people really mean business when business is brought to their lot in either "political ways". And there are many political ways available for the choosing. We can classify them as autocratic, democratic, egalitarian, Maoist and Leninist, Communistic, Socialistic, and all those that contains the "ian", the "ist" and the "tic" words combined; and the grievous fault is that when we choose one, the consequence of having surely an opponent, in such a certain political perspective and dynamic culturation, is not farfetched.
Today, the aftermath of the last election is quite intriguing, why? Because a lot of people who are now swarming the winning candidates and some if not all of the winning candidates are hiding because of so much expenditures they've incurred. Others are now even having fun with their immediate families accepting greetings and houlahoou from immediate friends and critiques everywhere. Scenarios are drawn every second making choked-up stories to read or even heard over radio broadcasting systems all over the archipelago.
Well, there's the opposite of this hooked-up news and caravan cuddling among candidates who won. They start to learn how to keep silent everytime. Maybe they've learned the past...too much talk, too much mistakes; less talk, less mistakes it's because they've done nothing for the people. (Handsclapping.....Yeheyyyyyy...)
Hypocrisy really cripples the bone to the last bit of strength it has. May be this is one of the essential elements of "silence". (Watch out for the next elections....)
posted by Unknown | Thursday, May 13, 2004
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