THE parade of presidential candidates with real chances of winning makes you sick in the stomach. As you sink into near-depression with the certainty that all of them — career politicians and vacuous political newbies/cum social media celebrities (the despot's son is a candidate) — will just uphold the economic and political status quo, a news flash that was quickly relegated to the archives reported something new: that a labor leader filed his papers to run for president. (OK, there is a mainstream candidate with real integrity, but we all wish she has the grit and spine of Nancy Pelosi.)
Ka Leody de Guzman, the president of a national labor organization, will run for president in 2022 under a labor party. For us who have always maintained that amid the current gloom and doom hope springs eternal, that filing for a presidential run stirred hope within the ranks of the working and peasant class. For the faceless and voiceless Filipinos like me who yearn for real change, maybe, just maybe, our political moment has finally arrived.
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