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It’s hard not to get a sinking feeling about our country at a time when our political leaders are once again seen to be robbing Filipinos not only of their hard-earned tax money, but also of their very dignity, and with it, their children’s prospects for a better future.

The impunity with which lawmakers passed the most dysfunctional and self-serving national budget this country has seen in modern history is but the latest in a series of evil and blatant abuse of power that the Duterte presidency unleashed: state-sanctioned mass murders, organized crime built around illegal drugs, and online gaming that has emerged to have been coddled and protected by the very leaders hypocritically claiming to be fighting it, patently unjust incarceration and character assassination of political detractors on fictitious charge, massive corrupt procurements amid people’s suffering during the pandemic, proliferation and upscaling of legalized theft of people’s money via whimsical and arbitrary conf