Young Voters, Here’s The 11th Commandment On Whom To Vote Wisely, Adding To Elegere’s List Of 10 Commandments & Injecting Candidate’s Concern For Farmer Poverty Plus Healthy Foods Plus Climate Change!

In the Philippines, are the young voters minding intelligently how to vote in the presidential May elections? How are they choosing their President?

In the Facebook post of 19 Feb 2022 (Ann Gatmaytan sharing), Alberto A Ramirez says:

The young, whose future will be most affected by this coming May’s presidential elections, will greatly affect the result of these elections with their votes. Some 32 million registered voters are in the age group of 18-40 years old, classified as the youth vote, which represent about half of the more than 65 million Filipino voters registered. This is why they have to be able to elect the right leaders for their country for that future to have any chance of becoming bright.

There’s hope for the Philippines from the young after all!

If you are senior or adult, you probably already have a presidential candidate you have chosen to vote for – so let’s worry about the youth, who make up half of the voting population. Let us help them make a wise choice for the next PH President!

What I have done is not to continue reading the opinions, mostly stated in the negative and sometimes vulgar terms, and instead look for a proper guide in selecting candidates, especially the President of my country. So I have googled, and I am lucky that the very first website to appear is titled, “10 Commandments On How To Vote Wisely” (Elegere, elegere.wixsite.com).

Elegere’s 10 commandments are:

#1 Know everything about each candidate.
#2 Scrutinize their credentials.
#3 Listen with an open mind.
#4 Focus on issues, not personal attacks.
#5 Never vote based on popularity.
#6 Analyze how they handle stress.
#7 Don’t fall for these so-called God-fearing politicians.
#8 Don’t just join the majority vote.
#9 Listen to critics but avoid haters.
#10 Vote (for) what our country needs, not (whom) you need. (edited)

Looking at the list, I can see that on Facebook, we violate all of Elegere’s commandments!

But I’m extremely glad for the 10^th: “Vote for what our country needs, not whom you need.” I believe that refers to the candidate’s Vision for the country. Now, since I am an agriculturist and know the problems that my country urgently needs to solve right now, I am injecting the 11^th commandment on whom to vote wisely, which is this:

Vote for whom who cares about poverty and health and the environment all at the same time!

Actually, I have been writing about how to simultaneously solve farmer poverty, ill-health from pesticide-contaminated foods, and climate change, a little over 2 weeks ago (see my essay, “Organic Agriculture – Simultaneously Solving Farmer Poverty & Bad Health & Climate Change – Killing 3 Global Goliaths With 1 Stone!” 10 Feb 2022, Primate Change, Blogspot.com). So, young voters, for the May elections, the 11^th commandment is:

#11 Vote for the Presidentiable who appreciates simultaneously Farmer Poverty and Healthy Foods and Climate Change!@517