Getting into Peaceful Politics

Reading the news about American politics, I can see that one really needs a good grounding in English, a firm knowledge on politics and handling political wranglings, as well as having a good supportive network of officials who value and will stand by you through thick and thin. I wonder if our Kababayan in the United States of America view this as true. I am sure that they also want to advance politically and not just wait on the sidelines, watching what will happen to the fight between Democrats and Republicans. I hope they would stand by democratic principles.

Now why is it so difficult for the Republicans to see the value of health care? It seems as if this is going back to square one, defending the value of the law so that all of the American people, not just our Kababayan, mind you, could enjoy living and when getting sick, know that they could always go to health institutions and be cared for. That's as simple as I understand the health care which the Republicans want to curtail by delaying its funding.
How could the American voters vote into office such people who would not want them to get cared for? I don't really understand that side of the question. Maybe it is time to

Our political conflicts in the Philippines have been resolved not only in the halls of Congress but outside, in the People Power sites since 1986. I think that People Power should not be misused again, as what happened during the Estrada administration. We must be more circumspect now and see through the hidden aims of people who are behind the scenes and stoking the fires for us to conduct People Power.

It is good that we are able to hold PP so that we can air out our views in public, which otherwise could be shut out in the media -- which by the way selects those views of people that should be printed or aired. Not all have a say. But being in the demonstration allows us to feel and shout our slogans if need be in order to give vent to our pent-up emotions.

Some quarters are still hopeful for the resurrection of GMA in the political limelight. Or some pork-barrel-guilty senators want the issue to die or to let those pushing for its abolition to fade away as well. Hence, the intelligence community has to be more vigorous in unearthing such plans of these people and find out how to quash their anti-democratic acts even before they are started. That is what those funds are for, right? and not for destroying the work of democratic writers who are asserting their principles in their works.

Come October 4th, tomorrow, let us bring banners of peace, and flyers detailing how we can use democratic means to resolve conflicts, no longer attracted to quick fixes like violence, and murder. (Let us have more artworks and paintings most of all that will depict peace-loving themes.) I think that is what is lacking in our educational system, ideas on how to negotiate (which most of the time is only confined to business and some social-work courses.)We must teach the young, starting as early as the grades on how to assert themselves, how to get what they want in a gentle manner, and how to have their way without using fisticuffs.