Someone on quora asked:
Are the Filipino people willing or capable of inciting a bloody, French-style revolution?
Corruption is actually on the downtrend (Why Graft Is Declining In The Notoriously Corrupt Philippines)
Traffic and internet are bad, but I don’t see how you could possibly compare that to 1789 Paris, unless may alternate timelines involved.
Dissent is at a healthy level and people are perfectly free to criticize the government and oppose their actions. There is no rampant violence on the streets on a daily basis.
We aren’t perfect, and there is a long way to go, but we are in almost no way a dystopia.
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