[OPINION] Nostalgia, conspiracies: The politics of recalling the Marcos 'golden age'

'When nostalgia offers an illusion of a 'golden' past, we must be critical when politicians use it to promise a better future.'

Nostalgia is a kind of memory that makes us prioritize pleasant memories over painful ones. It often gives us mixed feelings about the past. It allows us to go back in time to relish an old feeling temporarily, and it also elicits a sense of loss and despair as it stimulates a hopeless yearning for something no person can ever get back.

In particular, Filipinos today have witnessed the rise of politicians like Bongbong Marcos whose campaign strategy used a great deal of nostalgia. During the 2016 election, when Marcos criticsand an admission of all the sins of the Marcos family, he responded,"Our family has nothing to apologize for....

A case in point is the"conspiracy" that the pro-Marcoses spread on social media against the Aquinos and their supporters It is for this reason that posts on social media, which offer a positive recollection of the Marcos Martial Law, would receive a comment like"Maybe the purported abusive soldiers during Martial Law were those held by the opposition, paid to be violent to the people."

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