The Filipino voters never seem to learn

The survey's showing some TV jokers leading over legal luminaries is the tragic and embarrassing brand of the Filipino electorate's unabashed stupidity.

- Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez

These people who elect some morons in the two Houses of Congress are the very same masses who complain of bad government, of corruption, ineptitude and incompetence in high offices.

The way voters in this country make decisions on who to send to the Philippine Senate would be tempting one to say that they really do not use their brains. They choose senators as if they are electing class officers in one high school class. They have no reasonable criteria and just follow the dictates of social media or their reckless and capricious instincts.

Which would lead us to ask really, which is important to the Filipino voters in choosing a senator: popularity or competence? Remember that the job is that of a senior legislator, a position that requires the incumbent to understand the law, the process of lawmaking and all the nuances and intricacies of many complicated legal issues. How can a comedian, an action star or a boxer perform that job?