Two Rallies

If the “spirit of Edsa” is dead, who, pray tell, killed it? That would be the ex-Yellows, of course.

I believe I should call them ex-Yellows now because they seem to be ashamed to wear their old signature color these days. Even former President Noynoy Aquino, like the rest of the remaining loyalists of his former regime who gathered on Edsa last Saturday, wore black — perhaps to mourn the passing of their three decades of power and influence.

The remaining adherents of the Aquino family’s political faction can change their color to aubergine or back to Yellow again tomorrow for all anyone cares. It still won’t bring their dead movement back to life, as the sparse crowd that gathered to mark the 31st anniversary of the 1986 Edsa “people power” revolt showed.

The passing of the “Edsa spirit” is to be expected. After all, through three decades of neglect, thievery, incompetence, vengefulness and elitism, the ex-Yellows already killed the “body” of Edsa a long time ago.

It may be true that Edsa may have stood for something good before. But the Aquino adherents who were supposed to nurture the ideals that it represented threw it all away.

And these people cannot blame us, who do not share their discredited beliefs, of killing their precious Edsa. Literally and in spirit, we weren’t even near the place these past 30 years, except when we’re stuck in traffic on the way to somewhere else.

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