The national headlines seem to chorus a
report that blared that the ratings of Pres. Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte have slid
down and I’m sure our readers must have read the statistics that the Social
Weather Station (SWS) caused to publish in our national news. So for the
record, “Six in 10 Filipinos or 67 percent of adult Filipinos said they were
still satisfied with Pres. Duterte while 19 percent were dissatisfied,
resulting in a net satisfaction score of “good” +48.
The remaining 14 percent of 1,500
respondents were undecided.” As usual or as expected, SWS did not explain the
drop in the satisfaction ratings of the President and yes, they also do not
tell you how their questionnaires were formulated. The only plausible
explanation to this dip in the President’s popularity is that this happens to
all Presidents a year after being in office.
By now, SWS must already know that many
pundits suspect that their questions could be designed in such a way that it
would end up with the desired results the survey company wants to get from the
people. *
Since this was an uncommissioned
survey, I just hope that SWS does not have any ulterior motive by having this
survey out at this time. For the record, the last few weeks developments have
not been generally favorable to President Rodrigo Duterte, but in my book, his
base of support remains solid. I would like to believe that the 16 million who
voted for him in May 2016 are still there. There were just too many issues
like the lack of reforms that continue to hound the Duterte Presidency.
Last Saturday, there was a huge rally
in Cebu City at the Plaza Independencia by the group “Kilusang Pagbabago’s
Lihok Suporta 2” in support of Pres. Duterte. Police sources say that there
were only a thousand that joined the rally, while others go as high as 10,000.
I was looking at the various photographic posts on Facebook by my friends who
uploaded their photos and it is safe to say that at least 5,000 joined that rally,
and it was raining that day. Perhaps if it didn’t rain, there could have been
more people who could have joined the rally.
*
Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco graced
that rally and it was also attended by his friend, Cebu City Mayor Tomas
Osmeña, who until now is perceived to be supportive of the Yellow Cult… but
Evasco is a personal friend of the City Mayor. Now whether Mayor Osmeña was
trying to get “pogi” points with Pres. Duterte through Sec. Evasco we can’t
tell. But certainly that rally was in full support of Pres. Duterte.
No, I didn’t join the rally because it
was the baptism of my fifth grandchild and the birthday of my fourth
grandchild. But I still support Pres. Duterte first of all, because we elected
him to do a job and it is unfortunate that the Yellow cultists are trying their
level best to scuttle, stymie or box in the President with so many issues, the
majority of which are peddled by that traitor Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV whom
many people perceive that his job in the Senate is 90 percent to demolish Pres.
Duterte. That the Yellow cult has relied on the non-credibility of Sen.
Trillanes is very pathetic to say the least.
Today the Yellow trolls are attacking
Pres. Duterte for setting his sights on Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno and
Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales. These are the same people who praised then
Pres. Benigno “P-Noy” Aquino III for also setting his sights on former
Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, who resigned rather than face a grueling and
embarrassing impeachment trial. These same Yellow trolls also sang Hosannas to
P-Noy when he had the late Chief Justice Renato Corona impeached in less than
an hour in Congress and eventually convicted using false or misleading
evidences prepared by the Office of the Ombudsman. *
Perhaps what the Yellow cultist does
not understand even up to now is that their scare tactics that Pres. Duterte
would be akin to the late Pres. Ferdinand Marcos and declare himself a dictator
is something that the majority of Duterte supporters do not believe. In fact,
somebody wrote (unfortunately I forgot who it was) in his Facebook page, “The
people would rather support Pres. Duterte even if he turns dictator than see
the Yellow cult leaders make a comeback.” This is due to the reality that Pres.
Aquino and his supporters dabble in hypocrisy of the highest order! It is
unfortunate that many smart people I know still support the Yellow cult as if
they owed the Aquino family their lives!
How ignorant of these smart people.
The article was written by Mr. Bobit S.
Avila of the Philippine Star “Du30’s dip in popularity” which was published
October 10, 2017.
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