A student of Philosophy may point out a logical flaw in that practice, but the explanation is simple. At the end of the day, when all the other candidates have promised this and that, when they have excused their failures as the fault of someone else, when they claim their enormous wealth as legitimate, Duterte’s achievements still stand.
And that is why crowds still come to his sorties, people waiting in the street for hours, with no promise of food or compensation as there usually are on other candidates’ rallies.
How could this crass old man with the mouth of a kanto boy bring this much hope and expectation to people not just in Mindanao and the Visayas but in cities in the capital as well?
How do you solve a problem like Duterte?
You can’t. Because to the people who have come to hear him speak, he is not a problem at all.