By DON PAGUSARA Davao Today Under the present setup, there’s no way a worker or a farmer or a fisherman or an urban poor can win an electoral seat, nationally or even locally. Let us therefore stop calling our elections a democratic process.
By DON J. PAGUSARA Davao Today The state machinery with all of its legal institutions, under normal conditions, works as a manageable apparatus for peace and stability. But in a dictatorship the ruler commands state authority with the nozzle of the gun. No matter its pretensions, its inward decay oozes out as a reign of blood and terror for the perpetual suppression of people’s rights and interests. At best, it is a “paper tiger.”
By DON J. PAGUSARA Davao Today The craze for the tinsel shine has successfully fed the vanities of our female population. However it overlooks the more valuable concerns that should have spurred the imperative pursuits in our developing nation.
By DON J. PAGUSARA Davao Today The capitalist school-owner would not bother about who cannot enroll and be educated because there are always several others who can pay. In business the law of supply and demand always holds its sway. Sori ka na lang kung wala kang pang-tuition!
By DON J. PAGUSARA Davao Today A person of political maturity should stake his (her) political career to make a stand and commitment to a higher cause than winning an electoral post. This is the acid test of true statesmanship and political wisdom.