The Market Monitor Minding the Nation's Business
In the story of creation, after God created one Man from the dust of the earth on which He spat, God found that one man alone would be sad indeed. Man needed a companion to be happy, to be complete. And so, from one of his ribs, God fashioned Woman. With two, rather than one, God rested. And He thought He has solved problem of loneliness.
With millennia passing by – Man and Woman – did not find peace and happiness always. Sometimes, the happily ever after, did not happen; and their world was in turmoil. Thus Two is not always better, because the Two can be bitter at each other.
My real message today is that two heads may not always be better than one, like if the body has two heads, you have a monster, specially if that body is called the Senate of the Philippines. Since that fateful day of May 11, when the leadership of the Senate transitioned from an Actor who had become a Statesman, the country had been treated to the spectacle of a presumed lawyer Statesman transforming himself into an Actor, prodding our countrymen to label the goings-on in the Senate as a telenovela of sorts, a senetflix, to rival the most popular movies on Netflix itself.
We get the government we vote for, and methinks we have failed miserably these many decades to bring to the Senate the rightful men and women with the competence and love of country we need and hope for – like many decades ago. But voting people into office is a kind of romantic love, and no matter what good advice parents give to their children on this matter, the young one will choose who her heart longs for. And sadly, sometimes, the object of her love is not husband material. The same is true of some of our senators, they are not senatoriables, in the first place. Love at first vote, is as dangerous as first sight. So, in 2028, good luck na lang.