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'How will we ever know for sure that we won’t succeed now (or in the future) if we don’t even try?' PHVote WeDecide Read this opinion piece by Herbert Docena.
In January 2001, I was a wide-eyed fourth year, graduating college student and it seemed like the entire country was completely gripped by the ongoing impeachment trial of then president Joseph “Erap” Estrada.
I also remember now how we bristled at and angrily dismissed arguments by pro-Erap officials that what we were doing was mainly a “middle-class” revolt: Sure, we were mostly middle-class but, as we never tired of pointing out, we did also have many from the lower classes with us and many more would come to join us, we assured ourselves.
Like many students who went to my university, I was only starting to get “politicized” during those months. Having spent my early years in one of the country’s poorest provinces only to be suddenly whisked away to Manila and enrolled in an exclusive school for boys by my upwardly-mobile parents, I had come to be acutely curious about the huge gap between the rich and poor in the country — between many of my classmates and the friends and family I left behind in Samar.
Looking back, I remain convinced that going there to EDSA on those historic nights of January 2001 was the right thing to do. Erap was corrupt. Erap was actually anti-poor. Erap had to go. But I wonder now whether there was a different way of doing things.
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