Retaking EDSA

(Last of a series on ‘Retaking EDSA’)

YOU can only fool the Filipino people for a while, but not for long, not for 31 years.

There is a limit to the power to weave myths, and tell lies. Such power has an expiration date.

And it appears that such has expired.

When the people decide to throw away the moralistic holier-than-thou attitude of the elites, one that for a long time had held the power to paint the narratives of a country according to their liking, and not according to the people, then it is a sign that people have had enough.

EDSA was imaged as a revolution against the dictator Marcos. In fact, most political scientists saw it as a transition from authoritarian rule, rather than a transformation of the structures of authority and the ideologies that governed such systems of authority.

But when an overwhelming number of people, 16 million of them, perhaps even more, if votes were really counted honestly, decided to vote for a man who did not hide his preference to give Marcos the burial that he deserved as a former President, then we know that the myth has unraveled.

And more significantly, when even the son of Marcos, his namesake, garnered millions of votes, and finished as a close second in an election so tight the results of which remain contested with telltale signs of fraud, then we know that the so-called EDSA revolution has failed.

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