'Bongbong" Marcos didn't just win the presidential election in the Philippines this week. He won it by a two-to-one landslide, despite the fact that he is the extremely entitled son of a former president who stole at least US$10 billion and a mother who spent the loot partly on the world's most extensive collection of designer shoes (3,000 pairs).
Moreover, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, to give him his real name, has yet to achieve his own accomplishments other than that name. Yet his name and his inherited wealth, originally have enabled him to hold various political offices almost continuously (apart from five years in exile) since he was 23.
Equally deplorable is the electoral triumph of his vice-presidential ally, Sara Duterte, daughter of the incumbent Rodrigo Duterte. The latter is leaving the presidency at the end of his six-year term, and he is still wildly popular despite the many thousands of extra-judicial killings of accused "drug fiends" that he has ordered.
