IT seems that when we aren’t distracted by the brouhaha over Sen. Grace Poe’s search for her parents, Rodrigo Duterte’s cursing and threats of violence and execution against all criminals, and the long-drawn out Senate hearings versus Jejomar Binay, what we find is a nation in shambles.

But of course we will not hear the President, or the man on top of his list of presidentiables, Liberal Party’s Mar Roxas, admitting this. From where they stand, things are wonderful on matuwid na daan, and they’ve done so much to change the course of the nation.