https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okwaHbuW-Hc

“I'm forever blowing bubbles

Pretty bubbles in the air

They fly so high, nearly reach the sky

Then like my dreams they fade and die

Fortune's always hiding

I've looked everywhere

I'm forever blowing bubbles

Pretty bubbles in the air”

        It seems the lyrics of this old song is appropriate to describe the current state of our country.  Let me explain.

        It is a fact that our media is considered tabloid journalism and as such the hard-nosed high-level news is set aside. We are left with the painful emotional consequences.  In the tabloids, voices of crooks, political opponents, leftists, and all malcontents are actually joined together in a chorus to create an emotional high pitch of discontent. Nobody is using his intellect anymore – at worse, those who are still using their brains are not thinking straight.

        The President’s honesty does not matter. His desire and work for peace and a better life for Muslim Mindanao don’t matter. Keeping the economy running at high gear does not matter. Even the progress in the campaign against graft and corruption does not matter.