A political zarzuela de bola-bola

These second rate trying hard copycat trapos should give the nation a break. They are making a mockery of our electoral process, and are playing a political rigodon de bola-bola or zarzuela de bugal-bugal. They are supposed to be national leaders and models of respectable behavior of decent, honorable men and women of probity, decorum, and civility.

What we are seeing is a spectacle of greed for power, displayed in its most despicable incongruities. The people deserve a little respect from their so-called leaders, and they should be spared from these obnoxious aberrations emanating from some political dynasties which have no other visible means of livelihood but politics ad nauseam. In the recent weeks, we saw a city mayor filing a certificate of candidacy for reelection and telling the people that she has no ambition for national office, only to take back her words, in a matter of days thereafter, and run for vice president. What exacerbated the charade was that the younger brother had to replace her as if this family had a Torrens title to the city hall.

We also saw that same lady attending a wedding as principal sponsor to the daughter of a senator who had just been exonerated by the court on charges of plunder connected with the Napoles  scandal. That lady was playing coy walking, with demure smiles, in the aisle with her presidential candidate, as co-principal sponsor, surrounded by a crowd of trapos and believers of transactional politics. Then wearing the same gown, that lady proceeded directly to the office of the president of another political party, to take her oath for convenience, of course, so that she could have a launching pad to run for vice president. And in a matter of few minutes, the party of the presidential candidate from the north adopted her as its vice presidential team mate. What a spectacle, what a travesty.

Do these trapos ever believe that the people are still stupid enough to take these charades as integral parts of a corrupt political system? Maybe yes, maybe no. But next time, they should write a better script and they should hire more brilliant scriptwriters. If they want to fool the people, they should be more refined and more savvy. Fooling the people should be elevated to a higher form of art, rather than that crude, reckless, if whimsical and grossly insulting sort of trash. Their slips are showing and their pantomimes are getting shallower and shallower by the day. If they are bent at playing this kind of game, they should at least try a little form of dignified atrocity.

And because of money, political machinery, and the combined support of all the country's  major dynasties, this lady may become the next vice president of the republic. And if her president is dislodged from the presidency, because of a serious petition to cancel his certificate of candidacy, then another mayor from the same southern city may become the third female president of our country. And if that happens, may God have mercy on all of us.