Answer:
FERDINAND E. Marcos and Rodrigo R. Duterte have many things in common. They share the same insatiable drive for power with the ability to control and destroy democratic institutions to ultimately achieve authoritarianism.
The varying methods in attaining their goals widely differ because of the different circumstances of their times. Marcos’s swift and sudden imposition of martial law in September 1972 caught flat-footed millions of Filipinos. In one fell swoop, decades of democratic experiment abruptly ended. All media outlets were closed down; thousands were arrested and detained; Congress was padlocked; the Supreme Court was castrated, and the long night of oppression descended upon our land.
On the other hand, Duterte’s capture of absolute power, unlike Marcos, is not swift and sudden. His acts may not have been logically calculated, yet there are clear signs that they are geared unmistakably towards a creeping constitutional authoritarianism.
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