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Necro-politics by Prof. Alex Magno

"...There are enough people out there hoping to reuse that template where a death shapes the politics to come. That template we have come to call “necro-politics.”

However noble the intentions are, “necro-politics” is inherently opportunistic. It manipulates public emotions to achieve political ends.

When public emotions become the decisive factor, we overlook the other considerations – competence, for example. Therefore, the nation is short-changed. The people are played.

When politicians toy with public passions, the country is diminished. We are denied an opportunity to soberly deliberate policy alternatives. Elections become an opportunity to wear our hearts on our sleeves rather than weigh contending programs of government.

Our electoral democracy, therefore, becomes even more fragile. It is rendered vulnerable to the shifting sands of sentiment, the whims of emotional surges. The crafting of a national future is left to the coincidence of deaths.

Much has been written about the weaknesses of our democratic practice. It is personality-centered and therefore has no means to ensure continuity. It is not a contest of contrasting programs of government, therefore the electorate is less than fully informed of its options. We have weak political party systems and therefore little means to produce a deep bench of leaders and statesmen who see a longer horizon for the nation.

“Necro-politics” aggravates all those weaknesses. The phenomenon stunts the development of a deliberative democracy, the only means we have to build consensus about the future.

Without cultivating deliberative democratic practice, we are all heir to illiberal democracy, to purely symbolic rather than substantive electoral choices and to oligarchic manipulation. That has been the disease afflicting our democracy, making it less than genuine and less than satisfying to the underclasses.

Instead of training our people to be more discerning in their electoral choices, we teach them to invest their hopes in the magic of mythical personalities, whether these are sporting icons or clowns or both. In the end, public offices become sites for on-the-job training. That does not serve the goal of excellence in governance.

We have ample political dynasties but not a real political class."

Necro-politics Honoring the dead is deeply embedded in the deepest recesses of our shared cultural consciousness.

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Governor Lacson announced that in honor of Cojuangco’s legacy, the provincial government would continue the Project FREE program.

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