I did not vote for President Duterte, but I am glad he is our President now. I did not vote for him because I thought he was too vulgar to lead our country. But it seems fate has chosen him to be the president who would teach us to change our way of thinking and to find our own true identity.
We are all suffering from withdrawal symptoms caused by Spanish colonization and American democratization. Thus, the multifarious negative reactions to the ways of President Duterte.
We must trust our President and believe in him. For he is trying to better our race, our nation and our people. In God’s time, our race will emerge as one of the best in the world because we have a President now who is so determined to make it so.
Mabuhay po kayo, Presidente Duterte, and God be with all of us Filipinos!
—LOURDES AMOR PARAS, lourdesamor25@gmail.com