Extra-Marital Affairs and Politics
Note how it is the media that is responsible for the 'macho culture' that overrides any moral concerns when it comes to electing leaders in the Philippines.
Other reasons:
-continued poverty that makes it hard for people to say no to corruption and bribery e.g. vote-buying
-social norm where there is 'cultural acceptance of bribery as a fact of election'
-lack of education?
How does this measure up with the Bill Clinton scandal where he almost became the first US President to be impeached while still in office for having oral sex with an intern in the Oval Office of the White House. And what about in Singapore where Yao Xinrong of Worker's Party and Michael Palmer of PAP both fell from their pedestal and had their political career abruptly terminated due to their extra-marital affairs?
Qn: As long as people in the public eye do their job well, does it matter what they do in private? (2009)
Other reasons:
-continued poverty that makes it hard for people to say no to corruption and bribery e.g. vote-buying
-social norm where there is 'cultural acceptance of bribery as a fact of election'
-lack of education?
How does this measure up with the Bill Clinton scandal where he almost became the first US President to be impeached while still in office for having oral sex with an intern in the Oval Office of the White House. And what about in Singapore where Yao Xinrong of Worker's Party and Michael Palmer of PAP both fell from their pedestal and had their political career abruptly terminated due to their extra-marital affairs?
Qn: As long as people in the public eye do their job well, does it matter what they do in private? (2009)
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