Time Magazine has chosen President Marcos as one of the 100 most influential people of 2024. While it is a great honor and many politicians have hailed the inclusion of his name on the list there is one thing they are overlooking. Time literally says Marcos whitewashed his family's crimes to win the 2022 election.
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For Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to make history, he first needed to rewrite his nation’s. His dictator father plundered billions of dollars from state coffers and stood accused of grievous human-rights violations until his ouster in 1986. Bongbong’s rise to the Philippine presidency in 2022 was owed to whitewashing this family legacy through clever manipulation of social media.
Marcos himself admitted that he ran for President to clear his family's name.
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. told the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that he entered politics to cleanse his family’s name after a popular revolt in 1986 ended his father’s nearly two-decade dictatorship.
This was the first time Marcos raised the issue before an international audience and in a country where, critics say, his late namesake father stashed away millions of dollars that his regime had plundered from the Filipino people.
Marcos told Forum President Børge Brende in Davos that he lost interest in a political life when his father, Ferdinand E. Marcos, died in a Hawaiian exile in 1989.
“[A]fter we came back from the United States, after exile, when we were first allowed to come back, the political issue was Marcos,” he said during an on-stage conversation with Brende on Wednesday.
“And … for us to defend ourselves politically, somebody had to enter politics and be in the political arena. So that at least, not only the legacy of my father but even our own survival required that somebody go into politics.”
A former congressman, Marcos served from 1998-2007 as governor of the northern Philippine province of Ilocos Norte for three consecutive terms. He was again elected to Congress in 2007, and to the Philippine Senate in 2010.
In 2016, he ran as vice president but lost to Leni Robredo.
Marcos then set his sights on the presidency.
“Well … Every lieutenant wants to be a general, right? Every clerk wants to be the CEO. So I’m saying if I’m going to be in politics, let’s do the best we can and take it as far as we can take it,” he said.
His family is now back in the business of politics. His sister, Imee, is a sitting senator. His son is a member of the House of Representatives, which is led by his uncle.
So, whatever positive things he may do during his term the fact is his entire motivation is not love of country but love of family. Everything is about white washing the past, denying or excusing his father's crimes, and polishing the turd that is the Marcos family name. Even Time Magazine admits it.
Your country is pathetic
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