The Filipinos now have a large middle class, and that middle class, in a way, is aspiring for not just staying in the middle class, but perhaps a better life about that
But it's also the fact that it's a precarious place to be in economically, that they would listen and believe someone who comes forward and says, I will protect you from these people who will take what little you have, whether you're overseas workers in Qatar sending remittance money back to the Philippines or you're Filipinos trying to earn a living every day or middle class people with a house to pay for a car
you want to protect that and Rodrigo Duterte comes in with the message
that says these are the people who commit crimes, they'll commit crimes against you, I will kill them for
you and they voted for him which also tells you that the justice system
in the Philippines has failed and that's how someone who claimed to be a prosecutor is
able to convince people that prosecutions and justice in the Philippines doesn't work
murder works better. Unfortunately, he was able to carry it out, but now he's facing justice and
hopefully it doesn't stop with an ICC prosecution. Hopefully, it will also lead to truth-seeking
in the Philippines. Hopefully, it will also lead to reparations for the victims of his drug war
in the Philippines