I always thought that Leftist politics stood for the best behavior one can possibly project on the political arena -- that apart from its sharpest analysis and the correctness of its views, it also represents, by itself, a politics of freedom. Of human perfectibility.
Of Reason.
Whether we like Senator Leila de Lima is beside the point. The most powerful official of the land is resorting to wanton political persecution of its own political enemy. This is not leadership, but tyranny.
And for what? Because she originally asked a valid enough question: Why are so many deaths happening under the president's favorite advocacy -- an advocacy which incidentally does not strike at the heart of our foremost social problems. Asking this question is wrong?
And yet, the Left is silent. Their reason -- De Lima probably deserves it. For being a stooge of the Liberal Party, which is a party of the ruling class.
As if Duterte is not. As if Duterte's campaign was not funded by the elite.
Congress, and the worst elements residing there, are under a renewed vigor, basking under the glory of Rodrigo Duterte, and the current public euphoria over him. These are the same people who by themselves, at separate periods in history, maimed, killed and looted the nation. People who are unfit even now to kiss Leila De Lima's feet. Their new project: the showing of De Lima's supposed sex video.
The ND Left, supposedly the best of the lot, is of course silent. Never mind that when its ranks were being massively killed under Gloria Arroyo, it was Leila De Lima's Commission on Human Rights that was among a handful of government agencies it could find a sympathetic voice from.
The nation is unravelling, and the Left is unravelling with it.
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