Straight Talk by Nimfa L. Estrellado The 2 major political Parties (Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan o PDPLB, Partido Liberal) ...
by Nimfa L. Estrellado
The 2 major political Parties (Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan o PDPLB, Partido Liberal) have national campaign directors and many volunteers to push their candidate forward; these Parties have tremendous financial resources through targeted supporters.
Because ordinary citizens and groups of people with a special interest donate money to elect their representative; usually, as a result, this representative has a whole host of people to whom they owe political favors. This is the exchange mentally operating - if I do something for you, I expect you to do something for me. Political donations are usually repaid by favoritism of some sort. Generally people do not donate money to a political campaign, unless they like a candidate who will vote on issues as the donator of funds desire.
Many times, the outcome of this favoritism is a (monetary) reward of some sort; like voting on key issues in a certain way. Or a position of power (political appointment) that eventually leads to more personal wealth.
Also, you cannot really get elected in Philippines unless you are wealthy or have a power base that has money to fund your election campaign. The cost of advertisements and getting your platform (what you believe on key issues) out there for people to understand; is very expensive.
Again, it has been suggested, that candidates for different positions all be given, with out cost, free air time (TV, Radio) to run their campaign. This would do away with the need to raise election funds, and make the election race a little fairer. Possibly, some people without access to large amounts of money might even try to run for different positions.
Because many election campaigns use the tactic of trying to discredit a potential candidate by pointing out past failure: a moral scandal or misstep is a good way to do this. In the past, a candidate’s sexual indiscretions (having a mistress), misuse of political campaign money, behavior as a young man (bullying school mates), corporate manager (loss of local jobs), or past record as an elected official have appeared in the media.
It seems that media managers are acutely aware of our excitement need and often play to our lower nature when reporting political NEWS. They assume everyone love’s a juicy scandal and are quick to run a story like this. TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT ISSUE.
The 2 major political Parties (Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan o PDPLB, Partido Liberal) have national campaign directors and many volunteers to push their candidate forward; these Parties have tremendous financial resources through targeted supporters.
Because ordinary citizens and groups of people with a special interest donate money to elect their representative; usually, as a result, this representative has a whole host of people to whom they owe political favors. This is the exchange mentally operating - if I do something for you, I expect you to do something for me. Political donations are usually repaid by favoritism of some sort. Generally people do not donate money to a political campaign, unless they like a candidate who will vote on issues as the donator of funds desire.
Many times, the outcome of this favoritism is a (monetary) reward of some sort; like voting on key issues in a certain way. Or a position of power (political appointment) that eventually leads to more personal wealth.
Also, you cannot really get elected in Philippines unless you are wealthy or have a power base that has money to fund your election campaign. The cost of advertisements and getting your platform (what you believe on key issues) out there for people to understand; is very expensive.
Again, it has been suggested, that candidates for different positions all be given, with out cost, free air time (TV, Radio) to run their campaign. This would do away with the need to raise election funds, and make the election race a little fairer. Possibly, some people without access to large amounts of money might even try to run for different positions.
Because many election campaigns use the tactic of trying to discredit a potential candidate by pointing out past failure: a moral scandal or misstep is a good way to do this. In the past, a candidate’s sexual indiscretions (having a mistress), misuse of political campaign money, behavior as a young man (bullying school mates), corporate manager (loss of local jobs), or past record as an elected official have appeared in the media.
It seems that media managers are acutely aware of our excitement need and often play to our lower nature when reporting political NEWS. They assume everyone love’s a juicy scandal and are quick to run a story like this. TO BE CONCLUDED NEXT ISSUE.
