24/09/2026
Look who suddenly bought a calendar and marked September 21 in bold red ink.
It turns out that after years of collective memory loss, a sudden wave of historical awareness has washed over the Diehard Duterte Supporters.
For years, mentioning Martial Law in front of a diehard supporter was like asking a vampire to step into direct sunlight.
You would instantly get hit with the classic line that the fault of the father is not the fault of the son, accompanied by a heavy dose of telling people to just move on.
But fast forward to the great UniTeam breakup, and suddenly, the very same folks who treated history books like creative fiction are now posting about Marcos abuses as if they were leading the 1986 EDSA Revolution themselves.
Back in 2022, the math was delightfully simple.
The political marriage of convenience required everyone to pretend that the Marcos regime was either a golden era or something Junior had absolutely nothing to do with.
The phrase about sins not being hereditary became the holy scripture of political gymnastics.
If anyone pointed out human rights violations, missing funds, or suppressed freedoms, they were instantly labeled as bitter haters who just could not accept unity.
The logic was supposedly airtight. Marcos Jr. was his own man, a fresh start, and bringing up his family's track record was dismissed as cheap, outdated political drama.
Then came the messy fallout of the pinky-promise alliance.
As soon as the Marcoses and the Dutertes stopped sharing political favors, an absolute medical miracle occurred.
The collective amnesia vanished overnight. Suddenly, the father’s record became a very relevant topic again.
The moment the current president started charting his own course and distancing himself from the former administration, the very supporters who spent years screaming for unity suddenly remembered that dictatorship is actually bad.
It is a stunning display of ideological acrobatics that deserves an Olympic gold medal in flip-flopping.
This sudden moral awakening is not about standing up for victims of human rights violations or suddenly caring about democratic principles.
It is purely about political convenience.
Historical truth was discarded when it helped win an election, and now that same historical truth is being dug up from the grave to be used as a blunt object against a former ally.
When your principles shift entirely based on who your favorite political dynasty is currently fighting with, those are not principles at all; they are just fan club memberships.
Calling out the president today using the exact same arguments you mocked four years ago does not make you a champion of justice. It just proves that history was never the issue, blind loyalty to a surname was.
So, welcome to the club of historical memory, even if you only joined because your VIP access to the UniTeam expired.
It must be exhausting to stretch your logic into a pretzel every time the political wind shifts direction.
Maybe next time, everyone can agree to pick a moral stance and stick to it, regardless of which political family is currently throwing shade at the other.
Until then, watching people weaponize the very history they spent years trying to erase remains the most hilarious, yet deeply tragic, joke in Philippine politics.
On a serious note, beyond the political circus and changing alliances, the real meaning of and belongs to those who never stayed silent in the first place.
Martial Law was a brutal era filled with real human suffering, lost lives, and stolen democratic rights. It was never a casual argument to be pulled out of a drawer whenever a political rivalry gets messy.
True historical remembrance is about standing with the victims, demanding accountability, and making sure atrocities are never repeated.
Honoring the truth of Martial Law means defending it continuously out of genuine principle, not using it as a disposable weapon for partisan battles.
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