POLITICAL AMOEBA

So why I would pay attention to people whose IQ is equals of that of an amoeba?

– Miriam Defensor Santiago

Political Amoeba is my personal concept of people who are in constant change of there political parties and ideologies akin to that of power so they can utilize their benefits. This is different from a political butterfly because political butterfly is a politician or any relevant human being who constantly shifts from one political party to another so he can assures his gain. This “movement” of politician is normal and also accepted because we all know that there are no forever alliances in politics. Take for example the most dominant political party in our country today, the Liberal party. It is a coalition of different parties and some of their candidates came from different political parties and some had personal conflicts before.

As a Political Science principle, political party is as important as the existence of a democratic government because it serves at least 7 purposes:

1. The only organization or a machine that can win the election.
2. It educates the people on public issues.
3. It performs a basic role in providing leadership examples.
4. It is somehow a source of public policies.
5. It serves as a communication link between the government and the people and unites different regional cultures and traditions.
6. It also serves as a critic  of proposed policies of other parties.
 7. An instrument of the government for national integration.

Out of these purposes came perceptible elements of a political party. A party should have a common principles, philosophy and platform. Second, a candidate who runs to a certain political party should adheres to the party’s principles and possesses and has a common platform and philosophy. Since candidates in a coalition party comes from different parties of different ideology, it is evident that our system of political party in the Philippines is just a scurvy machinery like a platform to beam candidates into power and once they will get there they will resume fighting each other.

Political Amoeba is slightly a different concept because it adapts the character of an amoeba, a pitiful genera which falls second to the last rank in the hierarchy of biological classification. It is a very small unicellular organism which has indefinite shape, size and form. It looks like this:

Amoeba

Since they are very tiny specs of genus they are akin to political biped nuisances who were neither politicians nor elected officials but a poorest organism meticulously clinging on an algae  hoping that they can benefit in a mutual relation.

The development of political amoeba started when there is an opportunity to join a fuss of raging candidates eager to win during election. Then they will join the array and do everything with hidden desire of benefit. Amoeba as they are, but these people have tough faces and one cannot outwit them just like that. They have this ambitious undertaking to vertically rise into position because they are as ambitious as Theodora who was once a prostitute and worked in a brothel serving low-level costumer but managed to rise and became the Empress of The Roman Empire .

Political amoeba are devadasi of the government. They are the descendants of Theodora.

As a public administration student I recognized this as a corruption of order contrary to the principle of meritocracy. Political Amoeba is a sheer product of greed and evil and as dangerous as the nuclear radiation of a nuk slowly creeping on the darkest pavements of the government.