Question

what were the remaining problems affecting Philippines democracy?​

Answer 1

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What's the major issue with Philippine's democracy system?

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The problem with any democracy, and the Philippines is no exception, is that its a legalised extortion racket. The fact that "numbers", rather than rationality, serves as the standard of value, makes it such. What is true in science, that is ‘the rational’, ought to be true in ‘value-laden' politics. Good or cogent rational ideas should prevail; not popular ideas; as is the case with state-sanctioned electoral extortion.

Science often entails the discovery of truths by lone individuals, or breakthroughs by small teams. Ceertainly not the contributions of free-carried, distant or the disenfranchised constituents in a nation.

In the case of the Philippines, democratic sanctions make even less sense, given the low levels of education. But education is a precursor to a modern economy; so conditional voluntary engagement is the appropriate standard in order to invite or encourage rational standards, to ensure that one is at least respecting personal sovereignty, or personal responsibility.

The Philippines has a relatively low level of state interference; but observe how this low-level of state sanctioning of those institutions which do exist results in high levels of corruption. That is because the taxpayer has lost control of their funds (to the extent that they pay), and the state had sought to mobilise the entitled poor by making claims upon the rich who pay most of the tax. So the poor would welcome this extortion as beneficiaries. That said; there is a great deal of injustice in the Philippines, both now and in the past, but extortion perpetuates the problem - it does not solve it. Politicians will use it ‘both ways' by placating both the rich and poor. It will ensure high levels of duplicity, and foster sustained irreconcilability. Worse than that. It will cultivate the values of dogmatism or mysticism. It could reverse the gains of history. Look at WWII. The Western Allies won the ‘military war’, but the Prussian (German) education system that gave rise to it was unwittingly introduced to all Western countries during and after the war by German educators recognised for their PhDs. Look at the results:

Public education indoctrination through sociology

Polarising media narratives

Creeping arbitrary regulation - rendering privatisation a moot or token concession to private, discretionary responsible interests.

So. Now we are ‘fascist lite', ask yourself who is offering the hand of freedom this time round? I would suggest it lies with individuals like me. But individuals positing unpopular messages don't get govt support and they dont get private support from cynical electorates more interested in ‘pragmatic engagement’. The problem is such engagement is a stop-gap. Its plugging holes in the dyke walls. It will break. A crisis is not the most receptive foundation for rational arguments. Perhaps that will be apparent to people amidst this Covid-19 crisis. Lives will be lost.

Answer 2

Explanation:

• A representative democracy based on the American system exists in the Philippines.
• Aquino's administration restored the presidential system of government with a bicameral legislature and an independent judiciary through the 1987 constitution.
• There can only be one six-year term for the president.
• After more than 300 years of Spanish colonial authority, the Filipinos fought for independence in the Philippine Revolution (1896–98), which revealed the administration's flaws but did not succeed in driving the Spanish off the islands.
• Emilio Aguinaldo published the Philippine Declaration of Independence on June 12, 1898, just days after the U.S. triumphed in the Battle of Manila Bay, and dictatorial regimes were put in place shortly after.
• On January 23, 1899, the Malolos Constitution, which established the First Philippine Republic, was declared.

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