The bond that unites Christmas, family against politics

Love, peace, joy through reconciliation and forgiveness should usher in the Filipino's renewed hopes for our country and people.

- Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez

Politics is the devil's work that seeks to destroy everything that God created and propagated. Thus, dirty politics is one of the worst enemies of Christianity.

Politics, especially the dirty kind that divides family members, sows intrigues and foments rivalries and nasty confrontations, should be set aside and all blood relatives should come together in the spirit of love, joy, and reconciliation. It's the dirty work of politics that made Senator Imee Marcos despise her own brother and defy the wishes of her own ageing mother, Imelda. It's politics that led her to insult, denounce and attack with vitriolic and venomous accusations against her own young blood brother.

I am neither for Marcos nor for Duterte but I abhor intramurals among close relatives. I will never vote, much less support any politicians who betray their own close relations in the name of and for the sake of politics. I don't admire how Senators Alan Peter and Pia campaigned and defeated their own brother Lino Cayetano in Taguig. If they can do that to their own brother who donated his kidney to their late father, they can do it to any other. I never trust any politician who hates his or her own sibling.