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Size is decisive. The bigger it is, the better.

        In other words, based on the new gospel ,which is actually old and discarded, espoused with an old but worn=out passion by a former presidential ally of a former president, might makes right.

     In the continuing battle or street protest on whether the  impeachment process  should proceed against  the still reigning but not ruling as the second highest   official of the land,  the more ,not the less ,should weigh in the democratic process.

        Once upon a time Henrick Ibsen found about it that the  number i.e the majority was not always right.  So, the Norwegian author wrote  as to who is the real enemy of the people.

           Apparently, the world or much of it still has to heed a literary great’s warning. No less than the most powerful nation in history has shown its vulnerability to that political theory.  What’s truer, as a hegemon sneezes so the rest of the world is in danger of catching cold. Tarriff is the new order of the day, not covid.

          Ergo, the 1.8 million times two mustered or marshalled by a religious group as a public agenda to stop the constitutional mandate not only should move the needle but to halt the earth’s spin on its orbit. 

          In another front, a still reigning legislator in the House of the Elders, where the cerebral not the visceral should rule, there is a challenge to patriotism to those who have been itching that the International Criminal Court  should rule, not justice and fairness.

            If the reader goes by the senator’s simple, yes simplistic advise, those who want the ICC  to rule over the crime against humanity case against a former tyrant should be made so sing the national anthem a thousand times. That should settle the patriotic issue. On the surface, the requirement is, in fact, more humane rather to ask the pro=ICC advocates to sing until they are blue in the face. Doctors say that the color would indicate where  their heart, not their mouth, is.

        It’s sovereignty, stupid, say the anti=ICC  proponent argue. Well, the newly minted secretary of state of the United States has just given a short lecture on the subject: you give up a part of it – guess, how big or small —  as part of the deal in a treaty.

         End of argument.

         When the dust is settled, it’s easy to see what the argument  is really all about: politics or the partisan side of it – not justice or fairness or the welfare of the poor who are not only with the rich and making ends meet notwithstanding the law of supply and demand, but rise in number.

         The 1.8  million protesters mean votes,not only in the middle term polls but in 2028 when the number means much more in the hustings. They say it’s really about peace, maybe political peace or ceasefire and its moral equivalence in the period in between, 

         This week, so the mouthpiece of lawmakers in the lower House say, where the reps of what the John stuart mills allude  to as suspect in intellectual deficit—no doubt unfair, given who inhabit the lower House now-want to give it a go, regardless of the time constraint.               

          The incumbent government is gradually shifting its view on whether the ICC can have its jurisdiction on the issue   of whether 30,000 or 6,000 people were victimized by the previous regime’s war on drugs.

             NO, the ICC can’t make arrest of the suspects. But it, the ICC, can allow the Interpol to make arrest. Only lawyers can untangle the legal gobbledygook.  Suffice it to say that things have changed and will continue to change, which is a fair warning.

             Th frog may not feel it, but the keetle is heated slowly from under.

             So all bets for the moral equivalences now roving around the political landscape are off.  As Napoleon once said, morality is always on the heavier side of the  artillery. In a way, the thesis of a former presidential aide is consistent with it:number makes sense and the bigger it is the more it should.

               Apparently, the current admininistration is of the same view .Look how the opposition has been practically blown off the political market if not into smithereen.  Only a former senator of the yellow or pinksh shade is making it to the magic twelve.  Even the outspoken presidential sister is on the list, per survey, on the endangered list.

               Maybe the son of the a former dictator now lying below in the sacred ground for heroes has better oracle of the future.  He seems to have the killer instinct and knows when to deliver the fatal blow. The latest survey on his popularity seems to show he’s on the right track.  Always a few percentage points ahead of his potential successor who appears to have gone abroad or something.

                Gone are the days of a imagined beheading of a major political partner or his alleged kill plot that is found to be mere fiction. With a   major nemesis virtually silenced and the opposition merely a wink  or  a patina in the eye, why worry?   Besides, some presidential men have discovered a key to the law of supply and demand and only know it thus far.  

         So the poor can hope for cheaper rice in the near future, the opposition can hope to make it back into the political race, the victims of the war on drugs can hope to have justice in due time and the administration’s nemesis would soon be a thing of past.

          There’s such a thing as serendipity in politics.

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