05-07-2020, 02:46 PM
Note well -- the Philippines is on the same timeline as most countries that experienced WWII. It felt WWII hard under the brutal occupation of the thug Japanese Empire. It is in the same era of Crisis that the us is in... and Duterte is far more competent in cracking down on opposition Than is Donald Quisling Trump.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.