On Duterte’s “Satisfaction” Rating and the May 13 Elections
According to mercenary poll surveys, the people are “satisfied” with the Duterte regime for “accomplishments” such as the following:
- The soaring prices of basic commodities, the rise of mass unemployment and rampant poverty;
- The increase of drug smuggling and drug trafficking under the supreme lordship of Duterte.
- The mass murder of poor people in the urban and rural areas who are tagged as either drug addicts or rebels;
- The red-tagging of teachers, journalists, lawyers and others for the purpose of mass intimidation and exemplary executions;
- Presidential attacks on God, the Catholic and otherChristian churches, bishops and priests;
- The electoral alliance of plunderers, dynasties and warlords in Hugpong and PDP-Laban;
- The treasonous sell-out of sovereign rights in the West Philippine Sea;
- Making the Philippines a debt colony of China and mortgaging the natural resources of the country to China and other imperialist countries;
- Priority given to Chinese contractors, suppliers and workers over Filipinos;
- Five-month labor contract for Filipino workers (ende)
- Landgrabbing and open-pit mining for the benefit of foreign and domestic corporations;
- Chinese reclamation projects in Philippine bays and Chinese island building in the West Philippine Sea;
- Destruction and continued nonrehabilitaion of Marawi City;
- Traffic jams and increased transport costs; and
- Double puppetry to US imperialism and Chinese imperialism.
Considering the people’s “satisfaction” with the Duterte regime, the ground is laid for rigging of the May 13 elections. ###
