Regardless of personal interests and preference of political colors, it would be clever to not only be driven by the hype of the parties of these candidates, but to be well-read of what they can do to give the “true” change that our country has been needing all along.
Choosing the next leader to sit on the highest position in the state should not just be based on what is seen on pre-cut videos on the different social media platforms, but one should be quick-witted to roll fact-checking before believing in such. It is easy for supporters to fabricate information to sway an individual into shifting opinion, but it is easier to access the internet for a clarification that’s a key for a better tomorrow.
Recently, the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) presented its latest figures of newly-registered voters for this year’s election: 37,015,901, 56% of the total 65.7 million registered voters. Those who have recently attained their legal age (18) to vote belongs to this whole of 37,015,901, up to individuals aged 41 years old, recalling that the poll body issued its supposed target of (only) 59-million voters for the national and local elections to be held on May 9th–all of which carries a big responsibility in shaping what was left for development in the country.
Looking at the leading social media platforms, it exudes the competitive vying of the youth in endorsing their preferred candidates, by which these candidates are also devoted in courting the youth through various interactions in these free platforms, no more needing to be tech-savvy just to gain attention for their political platform, for the youth is already connected to information whether calculated for disinformation or fake news, or what the truth is.
Nevertheless, the youth could be susceptible to a weak stance of information, believing whatever headline that garnered hundreds to thousands of comments and shares, deeming that it holds certainty–it is where parents should guide them into actively educating them.
But isn’t it disturbing how elders, those who are expected to guide their children in choosing the right leader for their tomorrow, are the same ones who get caught up in feuds under the comment sections of the media with people who oppose their opinion? I think it would not be too late to align their principles to how they talk ill of others. Walk the talk, I guess?
This is regardless of political colors; this is about standing for what is truly right and not to what just feels like it. To devise a strategic plan of using democratic right to vote for a leader that is all for the good developmental changes of the state and not just for their own good.
With how the pandemic has showcased the pestering problems in socioeconomic and healthcare system inequality, it is safe to wish for a better space to live in–free of graft and corruption, the root of all deviance. The country deserves to be free from the bare minimum; it is now time for us to just take whatever we deserve, for the economy to no longer beg for attention to all of its attributes that saves us from totally blacking out from the worldwide scene.
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