Goddamn. Get the popcorn.
Avanceña wrote, “Nilalako nila ang pambababoy sa alaala ng mga taong patay, at ‘di nila ako hahayaan na magpahayag ng damdamin at ipagtanggol sila? At hindi naman kung sino lang ang lolo ko, at nagbayad naman ako ng tiket… [My grandfather] was a president, and the best ever, most incorruptible.”
I don’t know what scenes he is referring to because I haven’t seen a trailer or anything, but Quezon is a flawed man who had his own self-interests, and he was in that position because he had to appeal to both the coloniser and the colonised people. Just like any other politician in his time. We don’t need anymore propaganda that shows him as perfect because he’s dead and he probably doesn’t have any ambitions to run for any position right now or in the future. Perhaps it would be more respectful to show what he truly went through to get where he is.
If ever I were to be a politician I definitely would care about my image while I was alive, but when I’m dead I’d release my diaries so that people can know the real me. But that’s just me.
He’s not perfect, as half the time he was ruthless in staying on top, but then it seemed his rule for gradual transition from colony to independence was preferable over a theoretical caudillo dictatorship of Aguinaldo but with no clear-cut plan for development.
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