Switching On the Sun

During the midterm elections, from the campaign period leading up to the results, it showed Baguio’s collective judgment flawed with speculative pronouncements against opposing parties. As if they don’t know the truth given Baguio’s demographics and its once neighborly setting. It’s laughable and at the same time a bit aggravating how despite “receipts” of negative campaigning through varied measures and manifestos and through their “propagandists”, they have the audacity to refute such (dis)course of action. They’re rather claiming the decency of a conscientious campaign strategy. From grammatically-challenged trolls to celebrated figures, the most dangerous promoter/endorser is one who weighs-in their argumentation through an “overweening rhetoric”. It’s because it takes advantage of the naive and uneducated rank’s gullibility. But then again, is that a calculated scheme considering numbers have time-and-again substantiated how thinking voters are totally outnumbered… Do they think w...

  A looming political dynasty in Baguio has been staved off. However, about 18K, give or take, from that of congressional bet Sol Go’s votes thought it was ok. That’s around 20K+ short of her husband’s mayoralty votes. Apparently, that 20K+ discrepancy for a number of voters probably thought that at least one of the two Gos getting any of the local’s two highest seats would be fine. That actually says a lot about the Go couple’s out of sync supporters; for if they truly believe in the would-have-been Baguio’s first ever husband and wife elected tandem, their respective votes should have been in sync. Needless to say, even their supporters didn’t agree with the political dynasty they themselves tried to justify. Were (or are) they really “maka-Baguio” to begin with given how they enabled the inherent byproduct of such likely centralization of political influence. That’s something true-blue “maka-Baguio” people do not actually condone. Or is it? Or do we, Baguio peeps? Or was it re...