Weekly Brief
President Bongbong Marcos's first State of the Nation Address (#SONA2022) is set to deliver the inspiration Filipinos need to weather the coming storm.
In review and in prospect
President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. delivers his first State of the Nation Address (SONA) today before a congressional joint session. Everyone’s got an opinion about what will be said and what ought to be said. If the effigies the usual suspects in the Opposition plan to parade in their “protests" are any indication, there won’t be much of an argument of national consequence coming from their end.
With 31 million people putting in their silent vote for the Marcos government on such an unprecedented scale in these last elections, it is clear that the Opposition will be totally missing the pulse of the broader Filipino public consistently over the coming months.
Filipinos evidently voted to continue building a nation quietly with minimum dramas. Opposition “activists”, on the other hand, aim to lead Filipinos into believing that much of what they collectively aspire for cannot be achieved unless their pet “issues” are addressed dramatically and noisily. What are these issues? They are pretty much the same ones they had been raising way before some of these “activists” were even born.
Filipinos have clearly decided what they expect of their government. The Opposition did get that memo but, unfortunately for them, chose to ignore it. Not listening to what ordinary Filipinos have to say seems to be a habit many Opposition “thought leaders” are unable to break.
With a global economic crisis looming in the horizon, the last thing most ordinary people need is a disruptive bunch of rabble rousers causing instability and, worse, purposely mounting demolition jobs against the Philippines in international forums. More than ever, Filipinos need to both build and see themselves as part of a strong nation — one that could weather the coming storm. By the reckoning of the more sensible observers and analysts, this is the message President Marcos is likely to bring across to his fellow Filipinos today.
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