ANTONIO P. CONTRERAS IT is easy to be lost in the euphoria of the moment. The Luneta Rally held on April 2, branded as the #PalitBiseRally, organized by volunteers, funded by crowd-sourced money donated by Filipinos all over the world, and enabled by social media activists, has pumped so much good feeling among many people, enough for them to think that they can change the world. It is easy to consider the election of President Duterte as akin to a revolutionary moment, one that speaks of the decades of frustration of a people who thought 1986 would be the year we would have radically altered the foundations of our politics only to be stolen by the oligarchs. It is easy to be frustrated that...
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