HINDI masikmura ng anak ni Loren Legarda ang ginawang pag-endorso ng ina kay presidential candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos na tinawag niyang “pasista.”
Sa sulat sa Rappler, sinabi ni Lorenzo Leviste na ikinakahiya niya ang kanyang ina na tumatakbo sa pagkasenador sa BBM-Sara slate.
Aniya niya: “I’m writing this week after learning the news that my mother, a woman named Loren Legarda, is running for senator on a slate led by a Marcos and a Duterte. She is endorsing fascists.”
Ayon kay Leviste, hindi katanggap-tanggap ang ginawa ng ina.
“For weeks I have been crying every day, screaming every day until I spat out blood. The decision she’s made is so profoundly unthinkable, unconscionable, unforgivable. In the last month, my entire life has collapsed. It is beyond a nightmare. I still cannot believe it and will never be able to accept it,” aniya.
Inisip din aniya na magkapamatay.
“For weeks I have been paralyzed in pain. But I have no choice but to publicly declare that I am absolutely disgusted by my mother and what she has decided to do. It sickens me and makes me want to die. I need everyone to know that Loren Legarda lost her son forever because of this. Paint her bright red with that shame. Don’t let her forget it. In the words of a wise woman: I don’t know her.”
Idinagdag ni Leviste na tila hindi naisip ni Legarda ang kanyang ginawa.
“My mother is an example of how fascism takes hold, is made acceptable, normalized, facilitated, ushered in. I need you to know that she has no clue about the utter gravity and depravity of what she is doing. ‘So I am on their ticket. Does that make me a fascist?’ she asked, both cluelessly and cynically. I was aghast. This is a woman who lived through Martial Law; she was once a journalist who taught me to value truth and justice.
“This is how vile, braindead, and reckless these people are. They literally have no idea what they are doing, the decades of violence and anguish they are unleashing. For her it is just any other election year, ripe for the usual craven, convenient opportunism. There is no understanding that another Marcos presidency would mean the end of everything for the Philippines. The end of history, ang hangganan ng kasaysayan.”
“I am in utter grief. F*** my mother for abetting this. Their crimes are her crimes now. Make her defend them,” sabi pa ni Leviste.
