People Power...what change did it really make?

How old are you my friend? I guess you are too young to witness the Marcos regime. Most Filipinos who witnessed Marcos dictatorship will definitely say lots of changes had happened after the People Power 1. Have you ever seen Malacanang Palace after the Marcoses left it? It really looks like a palace, where you can see stuffs owned by Kings or Queens. There was a room in Malacanang that look like a department store filled expensive clothes, shoes and others. The kitchen utensils are made of gold. Perfume bottles are 3 to 4 foot high and believe me they are original brand. People Power 1 did saved the Filipino from tyranny. But it never guaranteed what will happen next after that. So now that we Filipinos are still experiencing and witnessing corruptions in the government, let's not think that People Power 1 is useless. We are facing different challenges today and if we only learned from the past then we can at least prevent such things to happened again. If we really wanted change in the government, we should start it with ourselves. Let's not lose hope. Philippines can still progress. Good day guys.

mar, there a thousand and one changes. First, there is the restoration of human rights, otherwise, we cannot even discuss about this issue on the internet. Second, we can elect our leaders freely, although not necessarily wisely (shucks, we could have been better had we put the right people in the highest offices, but no use crying over spilled milk). And so on and so forth. Don't dwell on the blatant ugly news that corrupt the senses. I go out and walk our streets, there are so many happy people we could be thankful for...

Well if your asking about freedom yes that is the real essence of what PP stands for. As for the corruption to end I guess it is a collective action that we do in here. I think that when we put something for a change we cannot immediately put the change into it since our system is so big that we cannot just eliminate who are the bad ones from the good ones. That is a difficult process to deal with since we are under a law that protects everyone. If we do that kind of change we would just be repeating the Marcos regime that takes out all that opposes him disregarding the law that exist in our land. Would you like that to happen that when you are asking this kind of question you will be tagged as opposition then taken away just like that. We are called a civil society and we cannot act like what our predecessor has done.

A leader without followers can't be a leader. A good leader of a nation is not easy as that leader need people of intellectual minds to be his advisors as one man show can't possible run a nation without capable hands under him. But when these cronies become greedy they manipulate the boss that put the trust on them by ill advising him on issues that would benefit them. At the end of the day all the blame goes to the leader when the nation's state of affairs start to go haywire and the economy start to crumble. Corruption happen everywhere and it is unfair to blame just one person as the games of politics is only a cover up for the rich to get richer and the poor to be poorer. Corruption is the ills of every nation which is difficult to eradicate.

The fight is still now finish. The people power revolution that we fought in EDSA in 1986 freed us indeed from the Marcos Regime but not from the real corruption of freedom. We fought for freedom and proclaim victory out of inconceivable prize as we find it in our present time. If someone asks me about the change it caused to us, it brought us a worse situation. The poor becomes poorer and the rich becomes richer. This is the real story behind the VICTORY we pretend to proclaim.

The corruption, the killing of the progressive people, the scam of different agencies of the government, the corrupt officials of the states and other . i think nothing change from the time of ferdinand marcos to the this time. Its already five Presedent who pass by but no one can give the solution for this kind of fishey activities of the bureacrats people of our government. If we condemed marcos for his sin to the people likewise to his cronies.

hi marapplestiffy, Maybe there are a lot of good things happened with People Power. End of dictatorship is one, that people can fight for democracy in short, we can shout and fight for what is know could better our country. Killings and inappropriate detentions at that time ended. Maybe it opened our eyes and see that when enough is really enough and we learned that we can take things in our own hands and that common people have the big say to the whole nation. People from other nation followed us, that people can fight against dictatorship. We, Filipinos started it all, we fought for our freedom and a hero in us was born. The only thing that makes me sad about it is, as if nothing happens. We may not have a dictator anymore but we still have ruthless corrupt government officials. We are still a developing country. Poor people are becoming poorer. We are as if fighting for the same thing over and over again. I hope that everything change for the better and that our Government should guide its people in a better path. Corruption should end now!

Sadly, we aren't truly free right now since we aren't really an independent country. We still rely on other countries like America to survive and ask for other country's help. Our corrupt officials are to blame and so are the people- they just bought votes. I hope the Pnoy administration would do better and that people would help him instead of putting him down.

I admit a lot of people thought its going to be very good and the country will be prosperous and successful once again because of all the euphoria and promises brought by People Power 1986. But then its not really that easy. We have a long way to go, and the Edsa Revolution is just the beginning. Just like the story of Moses, a lot of our people despair and they revert to old ways of corruption and just like the people of Moses they thought its going to be better if we revert back to old ways. Why? because those ways, not matter how pitiful, are familiar to them. Changes could mean uncertainty, and it evokes fear of the unknown and lingering doubts that everything could end in failure. But then we already are victorious in that we ensure the future generation that the country is saved from the ruins if the dictator continues to plunder the nation and suppress democracy. It may not be perfect, but it is still much better than doing nothing and letting evil prevails.

Aside from keeping our democracy, I dont really think it contributed much to our nation's economy and standing. We are still stuck in poverty and EDSA did not change that fact. Political problems are still the same (corrupt, power trip officials are still there). The Filipinos should stand up for real, not just by joining these rallies or even another people power.

today it remains a symbol. and will always be a symbol and filipinos are just right there. we have not achieved the objectives of edsa