Protect and respect suffrage

May respect for this right never be tainted by the color of one’s choice - this is a prayer far from being heeded as those pinks are bashed by the reds, and the reds are cancelled by the pinks and the blues, whites and the rest are insulted while the yellows are despised or forgotten.

Freedom of expression is narrowed down depending on color choice.

If the pinks speak or the reds post regardless of the message, the bashing or expressing depends on which color one belongs – among same color it is simply expressing regardless of the message.  It is bashing if from the viewpoint of one not belonging to the same regardless whether the message is true or false. 

And as the election is nearing, everyone becomes judges – qualifying or disqualifying a candidate.

By our set qualifications, we override those that are set by our constitution. And so educational achievements were center of impolite debates. Our constitution already qualifies anyone who is able to read and write. But we cannot accept this.

We are so unforgiving to personal flaws, educational failures or any imperfections among our presidentiables but we are tolerating bad mouthing, rude and below the belt criticisms.

It is sad that we never realized that anyone among the presidentiables might win and become our president.

What face could he/she will have in representing our country when as early as now we devalue all of them by our disrespectful criticisms?

Who among them still have that clean slate of whom other nations may look as worthy of respect?

 "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others." -from the letter to the Philippians