ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS (Last of a series on ‘Retaking EDSA’) YOU can only fool the Filipino people for a while, but not for long, not for 31 years. There is a limit to the power to weave myths, and tell lies. Such power has an expiration date. And it appears that such has expired. When the people decide to throw away the moralistic holier-than-thou attitude of the elites, one that for a long time had held the power to paint the narratives of a country according to their liking, and not according to the people, then it is a sign that people have had enough. EDSA was imaged as a revolution against the dictator Marcos. In fact, most political scientists saw it as a transition from authoritarian...
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