Not again another political circus

These days, the country is again faced with yet another political turmoil. Year after year, month after month, day after day, what fills the news and keeps politicians busy are their own problems, leaving the very tasks they are elected for in the sidelines. This leads many to ask: What’s new?

The new political hot potato is the alleged graft that occurred in the aborted NBN-ZTE project that was supposed to connect and modernize, through internet broadband, all government offices of the country. While its goal was undoubtedly advantageous for government efficiency and economic growth, the process by which the deal was carried out was purportedly tainted with overpricing by government officials.

Now the issue has compounded to become a crisis, as politicians started pointing fingers, protesters with familiar faces who are always anti-government started agitating their usual sentiments in the streets, and ordinary people – albeit not completely informed – started concluding that it’s again timely to unseat a President extra-judicially.

While I don’t believe that officials implicated in this ‘scandal’ are all innocent, I am neither convinced that those who are pointing their fingers have hands untarnished of any misconduct. This lack of trust has led many to conclude that all this noise is just another political baloney. To put it more bluntly, what’s going on is just another political circus where government personalities are figuratively dressed as clowns, doing their acts, hiding their real skin with stylistic make-up and outlandish costumes – and they make us all laugh, if not frustrated.

Young people like me are starting to ask: Have we not got tired of this? For once in our youth, we are hoping to see change happening in our godforsaken country and leaders worth emulating who are working together to make things better. But our hope appears to falter as whatever progress achieved by the country is always wiped out by never-ending political hurdles – most of them unnecessary.

Young people today are confused who’s telling the truth, what to expect, when to stop hoping. Gloomy it may seem, but we can all learn one good lesson out of it: may we not follow the footsteps of today’s generation of ‘leaders’.