Vote With Your Feet

Mr. Quezon's blog post today asks what the silent majority would do if the tables were turned and found itself the minority. I can only say, I would hope we'd enjoy the same amount of freedom and license that the noisy minority is thoroughly enjoying today. But apart from that, the hypothetical concept that we're a minority necessarily assumes that most people have by then accepted that the economy is no longer paramount, and that democracy, malfunctioning or not, is already an end in itself. In which case, it may no longer be feasible to mount an EDSA uprising, either because the numbers would be lacking, or the opposition of a larger segment of society would make the resulting government unsustainable. In which case, I'd advise all who are still sane to liquidate all their assets and look for a new country. The time when we're no longer the majority is the time when the Philippines has begun its final descent.