SANIB-SINAG  4  May-June 1998
 4.4    
Elections: A Nation 'Divides 
the House'  to Choose the One
Who'd Unite It
By Saniblakas Promotions
 
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THE DEMOCRATIC DIRECTION is towards increasing National Synergy, not towards further division. However, overzealous partisanship serves to divide, to divide further, and to divide permanently. No one wins this way; the entire Filipino Nation loses.

        If it were clearly a contest between the preservation of dictatorial rule and the chance for democratic change, a high degree of partisanship would be quite understandable, in fact even legitimate, like during the Snap Elections of February 1986. But in a contest where there are many candidates who are basically of the same mold, and differ in the view of the various voters only in personality or in personal connections, rabid hostility is out of place among mature voters.

        The Filipino is worth dying for, all right, but is your politician really worth quarreling about? Why break families, why even break friendships and peace in the neighborhood over contending politicians? These may likely become political-convenience allies just months or even weeks after publicly slashing at each other’s throat! They may even all flock together in the new political coalition to be put by whoever will win! So, these politicians would have shaken hands all-smiles before cameras while their fans are the still quarreling, still estranged.

        Let’s discuss, even debate, and convince one another, but quarreling, like cheating, will only destroy whatever we have built up in our sense of nationhood or what has remained of it.

        Politicians are not worth quarreling about!

THINK ABOUT IT. CAMPAIGN AND VOTE FOR THE NATION.

[The essential message of this statement, and long passages from it were carried as a network editorial of the Sun*Star Publications Network as sent out by SunStar News Service. The SNS editorial cites the Saniblakas Foundation. It was carried by Sun*Star Daily in Cebu, the largest-circulated newspaper in the Visayas; and the Sun*Star community newspapers in Subic, Cagayan de Oro, Davao, etc. Sun*Star Daily even placed a quoted excerpt above the title and ascribed it to Saniblakas. A Cebu-based cousin of Saniblakas Foundation trustee Luis Gorgonio who visited Manila recently, told Loloi that the synergism concept was catching on in conversations in academic circles in Cebu after the paper carried that editorial.]

  
 
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