There is a familiar lament that can be heard among Filipinos who endured and struggled against the Marcos dictatorship every 21st of August, especially in recent years. There can also be observed the familiar hand-wringing among many who have come to despair at the state of the country since we won back our freedom from tyranny. Aug. 21 (just like the Feb. 24 anniversary of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution) is when it becomes fashionable to wonder out loud whether the Philippines, through the sometimes confounding political choices of its voters, had repudiated everything that the martyred Ninoy Aquino had lived and died for.

https://opinion.inquirer.net/165694/not-repudiation-but-validation

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