An interesting remark, indeed; while many are glossing and beaming over Mar Roxas’ “big boy” decision to give way for a Noynoy Aquino run in 2010, the reality has to set in: that despite whatever nobility there is in giving way, the dynamic remains: we face another shot at a second-generation President. The very thing some of us deride – dynastic politics – may very well be here, in the less acerbic form many of us were taught to despise in introductory political science.
We vote on faith, as many political commentators write. While we want to justify our votes on the basis of convoluted – perhaps even contrarian and to a certain extent cacophonous – claims, voting is an act of confession. We confess to our faith in a candidate. There’s competence and there’s cheating, but faith is that one thing that keeps us going to the precinct come election season. I guess that despite everything you can lob at Noynoy now, we’re pinning our hopes on the past.
Not on what happened before, but what could have happened. That, I think, is who Noynoy Aquino would be if he chooses to be the Liberal Party’s standard bearer: a candidate of faith.
