Today's Exactly100: EDSA is a Highway

Up until the 2010 elections, it has become a ritual of sorts, almost obligatory, for every candidate for higher office to establish affinity, no matter how tenuous, with the February 1986 EDSA Revolution. 

But since the election of Rodrigo Duterte, filial devotion to the ideals of those glorious days at EDSA has become a political liability. The event that once unified the nation, hijacked over the years by dilawan political interests, is now synonymous with elitist indifference.

Today, you are either pro-Duterte or pro-Bongbong Marcos. And EDSA? It’s just a long, clogged highway, a concrete metaphor for stagnation and malaise. /Joey Salgado