For 20 years, I treated myself as a person who is
afraid to engage in something that involves danger and complication. I've been living in a crooked principle that
not to practice my privilege to suffrage
as to choosing the leaders that I want to Govern in the place I'm in is quite
complicated. But as I took the Politics and Governance Subject for not more
than a month now, there's a change of perspective that clicked into my being, I
find politics more interesting that it was before. I feel guilty about my
action of letting 3 elections passed without putting into act the right doing
of what a kabataan ng bayan is ought
to do.
Every vote is indeed important. But we have
to choose wisely as to who would be the people we want to sit on the throne
possessing the Political Power of the Nation - State that would govern our
country in the coming years. I also learned that Political Power is a package
of exercising Authority, Legitimacy, Sovereignty and Power. Political Power can
improve the quality life of Filipinos if it is exercised in a right way.
As stated in the previous lessons of Politics
and Governance, Philippines has the most perfect political systems among
different countries. The only problem that we are facing is that, It has never
been exercised the way it should be. In connection with what Pope Francis
quoted and the reality that is happening here in the Phil, Political Power can
improve the quality life of the Filipinos if the people assigned in Governing
the country would first agree and make a law regarding the percentage of money
that would be retained in every income-generating places of the Philippines. Changing
that system would be our first step to a better life, imagine how secure would
it be to live in a city where the local economy would be booming. The chance of
a lesser percentage rate of Chaos happening would be possible. People would be
contented with their way of living, by having enough jobs offered for them,
making unemployment rate low resulting to higher economic activity and the flow
of money would then be balanced. The sense of charity in our politics nowadays
is somehow not visible to us, but If only our leaders would give way to the
many, by establishing the first-step action against their personal interest of
making their pockets overflow with money then we can say, that the sense of
charitableness in Politics as stated by the Pope is strictly and finally
exercised.
