well for a dictator he's not that all bad, if he hadn't declared marshal law he would've been the best president that the philippines ever had. back in marcos' time the philippines were one of the most biggest economy in asia 2nd only to japan, he built infrastructure that are of use until now of both medical purposes for public and military objectives. kinda shame after he left office everything went downhill.
ps. i'm not a marcos supporter even though i'm related to him.
Am I to take it that all those commenting here are, likewise, Filipinos? If so, my countrymen, I can only laugh... I can only imagine the looks on The Philippine Historical Society's members. The Department of Tourism could use this, though.
Orochi_Herman said: Hopefully his son Bongbong would do it right if he gets in power. Remember the commies is what got the martial law in the first place.
PS. A moe PHL history in the style of hetalia... this will make history classes more interesting...
One problem. Remember what happened to that one commercial? Something tells me that will happen again if this happens.
Wasn't Marcos the one whose wife had like 3000 pairs of shoes or something?
Yup. People rail on Imelda Marcos all the time for that but people rarely mention that she did quite a lot to promote culture and the arts back in the day.
If it wasn't for the martial law, controlling of the press and cronyism, the Marcos administration would have likely been very well looked upon as the best leadership the country ever had as others have said. Actually, martial law could have been forgivable if the living conditions of the people were made better. People tend not to notice the lack of something such as the reduced crimerate for example. Likewise, if the disappearances of individuals never happened, people would have likely not felt the need to take part in the EDSA, revolution at least not in the numbers that there were. Benevolent dictators are arguably possible like Josip Broz Tito or Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Yup. People rail on Imelda Marcos all the time for that but people rarely mention that she did quite a lot to promote culture and the arts back in the day.
If it wasn't for the martial law, controlling of the press and cronyism, the Marcos administration would have likely been very well looked upon as the best leadership the country ever had as others have said. Actually, martial law could have been forgivable if the living conditions of the people were made better. People tend not to notice the lack of something such as the reduced crimerate for example. Likewise, if the disappearances of individuals never happened, people would have likely not felt the need to take part in the EDSA, revolution at least not in the numbers that there were. Benevolent dictators are arguably possible like Josip Broz Tito or Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Lee Kuan Yew, textbook example of a benevolent dictator.
Hopefully his son Bongbong would do it right if he gets in power. Remember the commies is what got the martial law in the first place.
PS. A moe PHL history in the style of hetalia... this will make history classes more interesting...
One thing's for sure. Bonbong knew that if he didn't win as VP, he'd be bombarded alongside President Duterte with controversies just to allow the LP to win next election.
Those guys conspiring against them give the LP a bad name, splitting the country up. Nowadays, you have DDS and Dilawans at each others' throats.
Ferdinand Marcos' political career started when he was elected a member of Congress in 1949. His slogan during said campaign was "Please vote for me as your member of Congress on election day. If I get elected, in 20 years I will be your President." 16 years after this election, in 1965 he became the President of the Phillippines.
The illustration shows Miss Marcos during her campaign for the member of Congress in her youth. Although, with such beautiful long black hair, she looked like a typical Japanese beauty and suspected to have Japanese ancestry, she is actually of Chinese and Filipino descent.Vote for me, and in 20 years I'll be the president
Marcos is voted as congress member in 1949. In less than 20 years (1965 - 16 years later) he is voted as president of The Philippines.
