Note that this comes with the initial effects of Train, which many in the Left said would be bad for the poor. True enough there was slight movement in the Class E scores. But again, a comfortable majority of them (65%) still approve of Duterte.
The one good news is that Duterte still has opposition in the youth. "Millennials" (ages 18-24) continue to register the highest dissatisfaction with their president at 20%. The bad news is that the same group has been liking him more and more each quarter. (Curiously, yesterday's youth, or those who are now within the 25-34 age bracket, have the highest approval for Digs. Is this what happens when one "grows up"? One becomes older and wiser? Ten thousand kills are just fair game for a dedicated regime, yes?)
Anyway, a friendly reminder to the Left on May 1: Even as Duterte has apparently turned his back on the Anti-Endo pledge, on Red Day they'll be shouting at the effigy of a man who is well-liked by everyone else. I think this means we should work to propagate the cause of labor some more and continue to inspire the ranks up to within the lower middle class -- if they don't fight for better conditions, few others will. And the spiral of social decay continues.
The next data to check are the quarterly self-reported Poverty, which should be in anytime soon.
https://www.sws.org.ph/swsmain/artcldisppage/?artcsyscode=ART-20180411144206
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