I respect whoever you voted if you voted according to your free will. Ok, I am not exactly innocent on condescending thing but I am not part of the elite and I do not have big platform. I am only condescending on the voters who blindly followed their leaders' choices (i.e. bloc voting). Sorry folks you don't respect your selves enough to vote according to your own free will and instead allow your leaders to think and vote for you. Back to the topic of this post, many Filipino elites had been attacking Bongbong Marcos because of his family's past. The Philippine elites have not learned their lesson. The then Vice President Joseph Estrada won big time in 1998 Presidential elections despite elite's attacks on his personality. In 2004 Presidential elections, actor and political neophyte Fernando Poe, Jr. had his citizenship questioned, which in reality was an attack on his lack of experience, yet almost became President. During 2016, the then Davao City Mayor President Rodrigo Duterte was attacked for his mouth and alleged links to d3@th $qu@d. He won the Presidential elections in that year big time. The elites in the US, made the same mistake in the case of Donald Trump, he was incessantly attacked ever since announcing his candidacy in 2015. Yeah, the Mexico sending people thing. He was a fringe candidate at that time and not in the position to win. But his support grew due to MSM covering his campaign and attacking him 24/7 for being racist, misogynist etc.... Its not the Russians that won the election for Trump, its the MSM attacking him which his voters think were also attacks on them. The elites in the UK did the same to Brexiteers who were accused by the elite as racist and uneducated. UK surprisingly voted for Brexit in 2016, its not Cambridge Analytica that convinced the Brits to vote to leave EU, its the Brexit voters' feeling of being left out and not reaping the benefits of UK being in EU. The UK Left's condescending attitude, made them clueless why voters chose Leave. I think the phenomena of a person being attacked incessantly and then gaining sympathy needs to be studied by the elites. If you want to people to vote for your candidates, you really need to study your campaign strategy and tactics. Stop the condescending attitude. Stop the elitist thinking of I am smarter than you and the holier than though attitude. Campaign smartly, study marketing, and have empathy. Many Filipinos are admittedly not smart voters, but if you want them to vote for your candidates, don't look down on them, instead empathize with them, then do the marketing for your candidates.