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The Philippine Opposition need to realise that Filipinos no longer see themselves as victims

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Dec 03, 2021
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Philippine Opposition are losing the race at an ideological level

Part of the reason the Opposition seem to be oblivious to the dire state of their campaign and evidently spellbound by the delusion that they could still “win” this election is because they remain unaware of what it is exactly that hit them. They still believe they are victims of a “conspiracy” perpetrated by a cabal of power-hungry clans (well, yeah, it is), use of social media to “erode” the quality of political debate (welcome to the 21st Century), and, yes, the degeneration of public morality (that’s just secularism advancing into space where Catholicism used to be lord) that reduces the effectiveness of their branding as the “good” guys in this “fight”. We could see here that the scapegoats they cite actually describe lost opportunities to compete.

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