Bongbong is Noynoy 2.0
PRESIDENT Marcos Jr. and the late President Aquino 3rd are the only sons of two arch enemies who have shaped much of our post-war history.
The actions of these two — President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. and his arch enemy Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. — did so much damage to our economy and institutions, which explains much of why we have lagged behind in the world.
Ninoy
Without Ninoy’s political and material support — and I am sure of this as I was already a ranking Communist Party member by 1972 — there would not have been such a powerful, ruthless insurgency that, even in its death throes now still manages to kill our soldiers. The Hacienda Luisita that Ninoy managed was the New People’s Army equivalent of Mao Zedong’s Yanan, from which the People’s Liberation Army would strengthen itself to conquer the country.
Marcos justified the imposition of his dictatorship starting in 1972 on the grounds that the Republic was under existential threat by the oligarchic Right politically led by Ninoy and the Communist Party, which Chinese leader Mao Zedong fully supported with funds and arms.
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