“Where is the opposition, anyway, those whose ideals were born at EDSA? They’re apparently torn over whether they’re yellow or pink or somewhere in between, making them… “in-betweeners” in these elections, to borrow one of our reporters’ quips during a story huddle.
It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that denying EDSA — and what it means to Filipinos — is a curse, especially to those who either gained from its ideals or got thrown out because of them. As Rappler Thought Leader Antonio Montalvan II points out: “Collective memory comes from people…. But we are not the Marcoses — EDSA does not torment our collective memory. EDSA represents the Filipino’s happy days. Happy days are not better off forgotten but days memorialized as historical remembrance.”
To erase EDSA, Montalvan says, is “mission impossible.”
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