Doing the doable

As big anti-corruption march would have said, both President Bongbong Marcos and VP Sara Duterte should resign, along with everyone in public office implicated in the flood control scandal and all the other shenanigans that have come to light over the past couple of months.

- JOSE DALISAY

As nota few placards in yesterday's big, anti-corruption march would have said, both President Bong-bong Marcos and VP Sara Duterte should resign, along with everyone in public office implicated in the flood control scandal and all the other shenanigans that have come to light over the past couple of months.

That probably means half the government, but given the current public mood, the more the better, to give the nation a chance to rebuild itself on new foundations of moral rectitude and accountability. Atleast that’s the long view, supported by the Left among other parties who think that anything short of a national reset will simply paper over the problems and guarantee their comeback.

It all sounds good, and it does make sense — except that, as we all know, it ain’t gonna happen.

It's about as realistic as the expectation that BBM will fall to his knees, own up to the Marcos billions and ship all that money back to the Philippines on a FedEx plane for mass distribution, any more than VP Sara will admit to her father’s drug-fueled bloodlust, seek forgiven: of all the tokhang victims and forsake her presidential ambitions. Let's face it: the Marcos and Duterte dragons will be clawing at each other all the way to 2028. Meanwhile, what are we mere mortals supposed to do or to hope for?

At the very least, we can ignore the DDS calls for BBM to step down and for Sara to take over, because there’s even less appetite for that than the Both-Resign demand. The Dutertes want to make hay of the moment, but the sun isn’t exactly shining on them. Despite their strong and well-funded social media efforts, the DDS camp seems pretty much in disarray, with Digong in jail, Sara in limbo until February (it tells me something that they approved the OVP’s 2026 budget in full — it’s for the office, not VP Sara, although she doesn’t seem to know the difference), Bato dela Rosa suddenly scarce and their shot at a junta takeover badly misfiring.